logaoedic

[law-guh-ee-dik, log-uh-]

adjective

1. composed of dactyls and trochees or of anapests and iambs, producing a movement somewhat suggestive of prose.

noun

1. a logaoedic verse.

logaoedic

/ ˌlɒɡəˈiːdɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to verse in which mixed metres are combined within a single line to give the effect of prose

noun

1. a line or verse of this kind

Word History and Origins

Origin of logaoedic¹

1835–45; < Late Latin logaoedicus < Greek logaoidikós. See log-, ode, -ic

Word History and Origins

Origin of logaoedic¹

C19: via Late Latin from Greek logaoidikos, from logos speech + aoidē poetry

Example Sentences

But they may be mixed and then what the Greeks called a Logaoedic Rhythm arises.

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In Sprung Rhythm, as in logaoedic rhythm generally, the feet are assumed to be equally long or strong and their seeming inequality is made up by pause or stressing.

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And hence Sprung Rhythm differs from Running Rhythm in having or being only one nominal rhythm, a mixed or 'logaoedic' one, instead of three, but on the other hand in having twice the flexibility of foot, so that any two stresses may either follow one another running or be divided by one, two, or three slack syllables.

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