Rhopalic

[mhw]

A line of poetry in which each word but the first is one syllable longer than the word preceding it.

From the Greek ῥοπαλικός, rhopalikos, club-shaped, or thicker towards one end.

Comments

[emperor]

It's pretty difficult
to achieve rhopalic utterances
in English prosody naturally
let alone poetry!

[zbtron]

i'm impressed...

[hitchhiker]

hig gledy piggledy
old grecian rhopalics
leave modern anglophones
underimpressed

length-counted metrical
interdependencies
not being properly
syllablestressed

[mhw]

Nice!

[kightp]

Move aside and let me share the fainting couch. (-:

anagrams ya us

[hitchhiker]

sowpods > rhopalic
orphical
rhopalic

sowpods > rhopalic?
parochiAl
arcTophil

sowpods > rhopalic??
EpichorDal
carpholiTE
arcTophilS

sowpods > rhopalic???
rhapSoDicAl
archipElAGo
parochiAlLY
polYarchiES
holOGrapHic
polYGraPhic
ScholarSHip
alLoMOrphic
alLoTrOphic

[starcat_jewel]

You are awesome. Count me as swoon #3.