- An
adonic (Latin: adoneus) is a unit of
Aeolic verse, a five-syllable
metrical foot
consisting of a
dactyl followed by a trochee. The last line of a Sapphic...
- × | ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ | ˘ ¯
telesillean × | ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ | ˘ ¯
dodrans ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ | ˘ ¯ ¯
pherecratean × × | ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ | ¯
reizianum × | ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ | ¯
adonean ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ | ¯...
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Adoneus can refer: "Adoneus", the
Latin name of the
adonean or
adonic (-uu --) unit of
Aeolic verse "Bacchus Adoneus", a
Latin epithet of the god Dionysus...
- (of the form – u – x – u u – u – x ),
while the
fourth is five-syllable
adonean (– u u – x).
Rayor &
Lardinois 2014, p. 108
Lardinois 2011 D'Angour 2013...
- u – –
pherecratean (Latin: pherecrateus): x x – u u – – (pher)
reizianum (Latin: reizi****): x – u u – – (^pher)
adonean (Latin: adoneus): – u u – –...
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Sapphic stanza, so
called for
Sappho Alcaic stanza, so
called for
Alcaeus Adonean or
Adonic The
following is also a kind of
aeolic verse,
though used stichically:...
- hendecasyllables, of the form "¯ ˘ ¯ × ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ¯ ˘ ¯ ¯",
followed by a five-syllable
adonean, of the form "¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ¯". At
least five
stanzas survive;
whether the poem...
- Odes book 4) it can come
after the 6th syllable. The
fourth line is an
adonean (– ᴗ ᴗ – x). – ᴗ – – – / ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – x – ᴗ – – – / ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – x – ᴗ – – –...
