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The prosody of the Magyar is very remarkable.
There is no measure of Latin or Greek rythmus
to which it does not lend itself. Pyrrhĭcs and
Spōndēes abound. The trĭbrăch and mōlōssūs are
not wanting; and all the intermixtures of long
and short feet, Iămbïcs, Trōchĕes, Dāctyls, and
ănăpēsts. Virág's Magyar Prosodia és Magyar
Irás,[1] contains specimens of every classical mea-
sure. Other specimens of the adaptation of the
Magyar may be found in his Poesia, at the end of
his Tragedy of Hunyadi László.[2] The first ex-
ample of measured verse is of the date of 1541.
The dialects of Hungary are not much unlike;
