- ERE
- short palindrome in the middle of a famous longer one
- before, in classic poetry
- “___ the bonnie boat was won / As we sailed into the mystic” (Van Morrison lyric)
- ahead of, in poetry
- palindromic preposition
- before, poetically
- bard’s “before”
- afore
- before, in verse
- before, to Shakespeare
- prior to, in poetry
- “Before” of yore
- before, in poetry
- previously, in poetry
- hardy’s “before”
- how English poets wrote previously?
- before, once
- palindromic adverb
- poetry palindrome
- palindromic preposition in poems
- “I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ___ one chaste man”: Shak.
- before, to a bard
- “That will be ___ the set of sun”: Shak.
- palindromic poetic preposition
- palindromic word in classic poetry
- before, to Byron
- poetic conjunction
- poet’s palindromic preposition
- “Take heed, ___ summer comes, or cuckoo-birds do sing”: “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
- “___ sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes”: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- “… ___ I again behold my Romeo!”: Juliet
- poet’s “before”
- lead-in to “long”
- “… ___ he drove out of sight …”
- “Able was I ___ …”
- word before now
- “Able was I ___ I saw Elba”
- old-fashioned preposition
- lead-in to long
- lead-in to now
- “I shall see thee, ___ I die, look pale with love”: “Much Ado About Nothing”
- “I kissed thee ___ I kill’d thee”: “Othello”
- preceding, poetically
- before, to poets
- “Why, every fault’s condemn’d ___ it be done”: “Measure for Measure”
