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Definition of Rhopalic

Rhopalic
Rhopalic Rho*pal"ic, a. [Gr. ???? club-shaped; fr. ??? a club: cf. F. rhopalique.] (Pros.) Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.

Meaning of Rhopalic from wikipedia

- experimented again by adding unusual restrictions to the standard hexameter. The rhopalic verse of Ausonius is a good example; besides following the standard hexameter...
- of a histone. As for stage five, there are now sixteen lappets and four rhopalic buds developed. Their medusa shape is much more defined. There is also...
- Þ. One-letter words play a role in the Oulipian constraint, a form of rhopalic verse in which the first line consists of a one-letter word. But above...
- golden line. These poets use a variety of hexameters praised by Diomedes: rhopalic verses, echo verses, and reciprocal verses. They use the golden line only...