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The composition of Latin verse from the early modern period onwards is intimately linked with the values and aims of humanism. Unlike other forms of writing, poetry already had a long and vigorous tradition in vernacular literatures, and the Latin poetry of the Middle Ages had frequently been influenced by this in its use of rhyming, qualitative metre, based on recurring stress patterns, in distinction to the quantitative metres of classical Latin poetry, based on patterns of long and short syll...