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The boldness and elasticity in the use of the figurative images and the continuous play of rhyme and alliteration confers upon this text a remarkable unity of style: joyful, playful, and still expressing the highest mystery. The realismRealismus of the last strophes – qui mamillas captans illas, corresponding to non est alter, regnat idem – is entirely in harmony with this sweet spirituality. It is, however, not yet the emotional and passionate realism of the later Franciscan poets, which we are going to discuss in the following pages.

The figurative eulogies are a new type of an old form. They present historical events (for our purpose it does not matter whether some of these events pertain to legend rather than to history); they do not, however, present historical sequences. They do not tell, in an orderly succession, the history of Christ or the Virgin, but they give a great number of earlier events which are considered as prefiguring what happened through Christ or the Virgin. Every one of these past events is presented independently of the preceding and the following events; their historical interrelations and their temporal order are neglected; but in each of them, the same future event is embodied; for the figures are not mere comparisons, they are genuine symbols, and symbolism sometimes approaches complete identification, as in several passages analysed above, e.g.: