Editing Elision (section)

==Elision in poetry==
{{Further|Poetic contraction}}
Elision is frequently found in verse. It is sometimes explicitly marked in the spelling, and in other cases has to be inferred from knowledge of the metre. Elisions occurred regularly in Latin, but were not written, except in inscriptions and comedy. Elision of a vowel before a word starting in a vowel is frequent in poetry, where the metre sometimes requires it. For example, the opening line of [[Catullus 3]] is Lugete, O Veneres Cupidinesque, but would be read as Lugeto Veneres Cupidinesque (audio).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Catullus |title=Catullus 3 |url=https://www.pantheonpoets.com/poems/lugete-o-veneres-cupidinesque/ |website=PantheonPoets |access-date=9 February 2021}}</ref> There are many examples of [[poetic contraction]] in English verse of past centuries marked by spelling and punctuation. Frequently found examples are over > o'er and ever > e'er. Multiple examples can be seen in lines such as the following from [[Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard]] by Thomas Gray, published in 1751:

*Th' applause of list'ning senates to command
*He gain'd from heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend