Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In prosody, the substitution of a ditrochee for an Ionic a majori, so that the second and third of the four syllables interchange lengths. While the constituent parts are otherwise unaltered, the rbythmic movement is by this irregularity partially deranged or broken up.
Wiktionary
- n. The substitution of a long for a short syllable (or vice versa) to break up the rhythm of a poem.
- n. reflection or refraction of light or sound.
- n. medicine The forced bending of a joint.
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“In v. 10 I have ventured on a license which Catullus does not admit, but which is, I think, justified by other and earlier specimens of the metre, an anaclasis of the original Ionic a minore at the end of the line.”
“Catullus does not admit, but which is, I think, justified by other and earlier specimens of the metre, an anaclasis of the original Ionic a minore at the end of the line.”
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