# Adonic

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{{Short description|Unit of Aeolic verse}}
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An '''adonic''' ([Latin](/source/Latin): '''''adoneus''''') is a unit of [Aeolic verse](/source/Aeolic_verse), a five-syllable [metrical foot](/source/metrical_foot) consisting of a [dactyl](/source/dactyl_(poetry)) followed by a [trochee](/source/trochee).<ref name="Halporn:">
{{cite encyclopedia
  | author-last = Halporn
  | author-first = J.W.
  | editor1-last = Greene
  | editor1-first = Roland
  | editor2-last = Cushman
  | editor2-first = Stephen
  | editor3-last = Cavanagh
  | editor3-first = Clare
  | editor4-last = Ramazani
  | editor4-first = Jahan
  | editor5-last = Rouzer
  | editor5-first = Paul
  | encyclopedia = The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
  | url = https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400841424
  | entry-url = https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400841424#page=46
  | entry = Adonic
  | language = en
  | edition = 4th
  | date = 2012
  | publisher = Princeton University Press
  | isbn = 9781400841424
  | oclc = 995235184
  | doi = 10.1515/9781400841424
  | pages = 8{{ndash}}9
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  }}</ref> The last line of a [Sapphic stanza](/source/Sapphic_stanza) is an adonic. The pattern (where "-" stands for a long and "u" for a short syllable) is: "- u u  - -" when the pattern ends with a [spondee](/source/spondee) (i.e. --) or "  -uu  -u  " if a trochee is intended.

Hexameter lines often end in an adonic.
 
==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20230529195009/http://saysomethingwonderful.blogspot.com/2005/06/spot-adonic-etc.html Say Something Wonderful: Spot the Adonic]

Category:Types of verses

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