Dies Irae - Requiem for a Lost Soul In Understanding Dominic

As found in the Roman Missal, the Dies Irae is a Latin poem of fifty-seven lines in accentual (non-quantitative), rhymed, trochaic metre. It comprises nineteen stanzas, of which the first seventeen follow the type of the first stanza:Dies irae, dies illa,Solvet saecum in favilla:Teste David cum Sibylla.The remaining stanzas discard the scheme of triple rhymes in favour of rhymed couplets, while th...