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Definition of Tripody
1. n. Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
Definition of Tripody
1. Noun. (poetry) Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tripody
1. a verse of three metrical feet [n -DIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tripody
Literary usage of Tripody
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nature of Harmony and Metre by Moritz Hauptmann (1888)
"If we wished to substitute the expression 'two-foot,' yet the three-membered
unity, the tripody, could not properly be called a"'three-foot' member. ..."
2. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"But this remedy, which is unsupported by ancient evidence, is of no avail when
the tripody ends with trochaic close, as in the following corresponding verse ..."
3. A Criticism of Systems of Hebrew Metre: An Elementary Treatise by William Henry Cobb (1905)
"... or tripody a main-toned closed syllable with a long vowel (or a long ...
and tripody Hebrew poetry has formed three verse measures: (1) The trimeter ..."
4. Studies in Honor of Basil L. Gildersleeve by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1902)
"... and tripody is always a possibility, or we may have an ... In 51 a dactylic
tripody precedes a ..."
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