- 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...
- The
Adonia (Gr****: Ἀδώνια) was a
festival celebrated annually by
women in
ancient Greece to
mourn the
death of Adonis, the
consort of Aphrodite. It is...
-
always a dactyl, and last must be a spondee/trochee (together
forming an
adonic).
Exceptions can
occur when a
polysyllabic (especially Gr****) name ends...
- 3:07 11. "Tonight I Can Write..." Bacalov,
Neruda Andy
Garcia 2:44 12. "
Adonic Angela" Bacalov,
Neruda Willem Dafoe 1:21 13. "If You
Forget Me" Bacalov...
-
typically conceptualized as
comprising 3
lesser Sapphic lines followed by an
adonic, with the structure: – u u – –
classical Latin poets duplicated the Sapphic...
- trochees. In the
Sapphic stanza,
three hendecasyllabics are
followed by an "
Adonic" line, made up of a
dactyl and a trochee. This is the form of
Catullus 51...
-
including Sapphic stanzas (comprising 3
hendecasyllabic lines followed by an
Adonic): So the
goddess fled from her place, with
awful Sound of feet and thunder...
- who, it is claimed, also
wrote the Ad Fidolium, a set of
quantitative adonics. The
Planctus appeared in a seventeenth-century m****cript compilation...
- 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: Phalaecian...
- over the land, to act as a
fertilizing influence). The
Adonia (Ἀδώνια), or
Adonic feasts, were
ancient feasts instituted in
honour of
Aphrodite and Adonis...
