The appendix to the work of Norden, cited above, is a fuller development of ideas frequently suggested by the sporadic appearance of rime in early Greek and Latin literature. Norden gives many examples of this "rhetorical rime," as well as of rime arising naturally from parallelism of sentence structure found in primitive charms, incantations, and the like. In particular he emphasizes the influence of the figure of _homœoteleuton_ as used in the literary prose of the classical languages. His conclusion is as follows: "Rime, then, was potentially as truly present in the Greek and Latin languages, from the earliest times, as in every other language; but in the metrical (quantitative) poetry it had no regular place, and appeared there in general only sporadically and by chance, being used by only a few poets as a rhetorical ornament. It became actual by the transition from the metrical poetry to the rhythmical (that is, the syllable-counting, in which--in the Latin--the chief consideration is still for the word-accent); and this transition was consummated by the aid of the highly poetic prose, already used for centuries, which was constructed according to the laws of rhythm, and in which the rhetorical homœoteleuton had gained an ever-increasing significance. In particular, rime found an entrance through sermons composed in such prose, and delivered in a voice closely approaching that of singing, into the hymn-poetry which was intimately related to such sermons. From the Latin hymn-poetry it was carried into other languages, from the ninth century onward. It is self-evident that in these languages also rime was potentially present before it became actual through the influence of foreign poetry; for in this region also there operates the highest immanent law of every being and every form of development,--that in the whole field of life nothing absolutely new is invented, but merely slumbering germs are awakened to active life." (_Antike Kunstprosa_, vol. ii. pp. 867 ff.) Me lifes onlah. se þis leoht onwrah. and þæt torhte geteoh. tillice onwrah. glæd wæs ic gliwum. glenged hiwum. blissa bleoum. blostma hiwum. Secgas mec segon. symbel ne alegon. feorh-gife gefegon. frætwed wægon. wic ofer wongum. wennan gongum. lisse mid longum. leoma getongum. (From the "Riming Poem" of the _Codex Exoniensis_.)