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-"L'Envoi" by Herman Melville

-"Fragment of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century" by Melville

-"Clarel" by Melville

-"Moby-Dick" by Melville

-"The Maldive Shark" by Melville

-"The Confidence Man" by Melville

-"Timoleon" by Melville

-Gnostics, Cathars, and Bogomils

-Dualisms, Persian, French, and Indian

-White Symbolism: Lightning and the Whale

-Ahab's inverted Zoroastrianism-cum-Gnosticism

-The Ophites and Leviathan

-"Gnostic Mythos in Moby-Dick" by Thomas Vargish

-"Timaeus" by Plato

-"Historical and Critical Dictionary" by Pierre Bayle

-The Wintersian "post-symbolist" poem

-Reconciling with the squaliform demiurge

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List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)