pyrrhics

There is nothing in the sphere of the sublime, that is so lowering as broken and agitated movement of language, such as is characteristic of pyrrhics and trochees and dichorees, which fall altogether to the level of dance-music.

On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

There is nothing in the sphere of the sublime, that is so lowering as broken and agitated movement of language, such as is characteristic of pyrrhics and trochees and dichorees, which fall altogether to the level of dance-music.

Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

Instead of scansion by pyrrhics and spondees, iambs and trochees, anapæsts and similar simplifications he invented a system of weights (“wuzún”).

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Iambic words may become pyrrhics, on account of the stress accent on the first syllable.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Instead of scansion by pyrrhics and spondees, iambs and trochees, anapæsts and similar simplifications he invented a system of weights ( "wuzún").

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

In English poetry, the pyrrhic normally represents absence, loss, emptiness -- as in the second line of Shakespeare's musical metaphor for the erosion of the land, in which the second and fourth feet are pyrrhics: "When I have watched the hungry ocean gain/Advantage on the kingdom of the shore" (sonnet LXIV, lines

Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L. 2000