Adonic

An '''adonic''' (Latin: '''''adoneus''''') is a unit of Aeolic verse, a five-syllable metrical foot consisting of a dactyl followed by a 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 | url-access = subscription }}</ref> The last line of a 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 (i.e. --) or " -uu -u " if a trochee is intended.

Hexameter lines often end in an adonic. ==References== {{reflist}}

== 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