10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RHOPALIC»
Discover the use of
rhopalic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
rhopalic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
in a set order through six stanzas), *cento (poem composed from passages taken
from other poems), and *rhopalic verse, which they also call "snowball" (lines in
which each word has one syllable more than the previous word, such as "I ...
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Of Anagrams: A Monograph Treating of Their History from the ...
A Monograph Treating of Their History from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time;
with an Introduction, Containing Numerous Specimens of Macaronic Poetry,
Punning Mottoes, Rhopalic, Shaped, Equivocal, Lyon, and Echo Verses,
Alliteration ...
Henry Benjamin Wheatley, 1862
RHOPALIC AUBADE And a blackbird follows you from city to city, changing
names as it flies (osle, merula); it sheds its first music at daybreak (Amsel) as it
drops letters that will float in a river of your father (lon dubh, lon dobh) or into the
slight ...
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The Plimpton Press Year Book: An Exhibit of Versatility
... revolutionize revolutionize reynard reynard renard reynard rhabarbarin
rhabarbarin rhabarbarin rhabarbarin rhapsodize rhapsodize rhapsodize
rhapsodize rheometer rheometer rheometer rheometer rhopalic rhopalic rhopalic
rhopalic rigor ...
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Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry
The title emphasizes the poem's form, for rhopalic verse proceeds either by
adding an additional syllable with every successive word, or, in this case, adding
an additional syllable with every successive line—but the impetus behind the
added ...
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The practice of typography
... revolutionize revolutionize revolutionize reynard reynard renard reynard
rhabarbarin rhabarbarin rhabarbarin rhabarbarine rhapsodize rhapsodize
rhapsodize rhapsodize rheometer rheometer rheometer reometer rhopalic
rhopalic rhopalic ...
Theodore Low DeVinne, 1901
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Words Gone Wild: Fun and Games for Language Lovers
In rhetoric a rhopalic is a sentence in which each successive word has one more
syllable (or, as it's played sometimes, one more letter) than the previous one.
Here's an example of a rhopalic with increasing syllables: A lucid manager ...
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Italic Handwriting Series Book F
JOIN 6 joins are underlined. Rhopalic comes from "rhopalon"— Greek word for a
type of club which thickens from the handle to the head. Write your own rhopalic
sentence on lined paper. Have words increase by one letter or one syllable.
Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death? rhopalic having each succeeding
unit in a poetic structure longer than the preceding one. Applied to a line, it
means that each successive word is a syllable longer that its predecessor.
Applied to a ...
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Joseph's Star of Eternal Promise
Rhopalic. Verse. Having each succeeding unit in a poetic structure longer than
the preceding one. Applied to a line, it means that each successive word is a
syllable longer that its predecessor.
