Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Adonis . - adjective of a man Very
beautiful orhandsome ; physicallyperfect . - adjective meter having a
dactyl followed by either aspondee ortrochee - noun poetry A
verse consisting of adactyl andspondee .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As you can see, this hymn is in my favorite meter: 11 11 11 5, called the "Sapphic and Adonic meter," apparently.
Archive 2008-06-01 bls 2008
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Abandoning the usual arrangement in stanzas of three lesser Sapphics followed by an Adonic verse, his Sapphic choruses consist almost entirely of the lesser
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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A warlike song in Sapphic and Adonic stanzas created a more favourable impression.
Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897
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Of these the four-syllable type seems to me the one to be preferred, as giving the effect of the Adonic better than if it had been two syllables longer.
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace 65 BC-8 BC Horace 1847
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[126] 99 Adonic verses kata stichon, followed by 13 dactylic hexameters.
The Deeds of God Through the Franks Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert 1088
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