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Definition of Rhopalic
1. a. Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.
Definition of Rhopalic
1. Adjective. Having each successive word longer by a letter or syllable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rhopalic
1. each word being increased by a syllable [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhopalic
Literary usage of Rhopalic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1863)
"Not know what rhopalic Verses are ? Why, "every schoolboy knows that," as clever
writers say when they bring in some bit of learning they have just got hold ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Here the rhopalic* '- in a wedge are drawn, There the proud ... 15 rhopalic verses
begin with a monosyllable, and continue in words, growing gradually ..."
3. Homer's Odyssey: Books I-IV by Homer, Bernadotte Perrin (1891)
"... is pronounced as trisyllabic, this is a 'rhopalic' verse, each word in the
verse having one more syllable than the word preceding, ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... containing numerous Speciment of Macaronic Poetry ; Punning Mottoes ; rhopalic,
Shaped, Equivocal, Lyon, and Echo Verses; Alliterations, Acrostics, ..."
5. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"rhopalic verse, or Wedge verse, a line in which each succeeding word has more
syllables than the preceding,—eg : Hope ever solaces miserable individuals. ..."
6. Sir Thomas Browne by Edmund Gosse (1905)
"cymbals, on rhopalic (or club-shaped) verses, on the primitive language, on the
fishes eaten by our Saviour after His resurrection, on artificial mounts or ..."
7. Sir Thomas Browne by Edmund Gosse (1905)
"cymbals, on rhopalic (or club-shaped) verses, on the primitive language, on the
fishes eaten by our Saviour after His resurrection, on artificial mounts or ..."
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