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n. - A verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee adj. - Relating to or like the beautiful youth beloved by Aphrodite and killed by a wild boar in mythology.

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  • The verse of the laments is Adonic
  • As you can see, this hymn is in my favorite meter: 11 11 11 5, called the "Sapphic and Adonic meter," apparently.
  • A warlike song in Sapphic and Adonic stanzas created a more favourable impression.
  • 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.
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