Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
prosodic . - Used in prosodia (see
prosodion ); hence, constituting or pertaining to a variety of anapestic verse, named from its use in prosodia. See II. - noun In ancient prosody, an anapestic tripody with admission of an (anapestic) spondee or an iambus in the first place.
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Examples
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I did not know, in that delirium of exaltation which a poetic discovery always makes in the heart of a youth, whether most to admire the bold artifice of the man who had adapted an unrhymed Persian metre ” the Pearl ” to the needs of a poem in the broadest Dorsetshire dialect, or the deep intensity of the emotion with which he had clothed a glorious piece of prosodiac scholarship.
The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922
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