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is AAB AAB BBA BBA. This form was imitated by later poets and is called by critics the "helinandian stanza." In this poem, Death appears as a ubiquitous and hyperactive agent. Helinand does not use macabre elements, except in the title, which puns on the
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to the priesthood, to preaching and writing. His date of death is said to be 3 February 1223, or 1229, or 1237. The Church of
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containing forty-nine books (of which only less than half have survived), which he compiled from 1211 to 1223. Helinand incorporated several of his
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