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l. 1: _Est-ce toi, chèr(e) Élis(e)?_ = 6 sylls.;

(2) at the end of a line, where the 'mute e' is reckoned with the
preceding sounded syllable, which is thus made a "feminine rhyme," e.g.;

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l. 7 . . . || _est cher à ma mémoire!_ = 6 sylls.

It is for this reason that Racine avails himself (ll. 92, 436, 514,
1232) of the license to spell _encor_ instead of _encore_, thereby
reducing the word by one syllable:

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l. 436 . . . || _le voit encor la nuit_;

and conversely he writes _jusques_ for _jusque_ before _au_, to prevent
the elision and keep the word dissyllabic, in

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l. 136 _Sion, jusques au ciel_: || . . . .

Similarly in l. 426, for the simpler expression

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_Tous révèrent à genoux_,

he writes,

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