logaedic
logaedic is the alternative spelling of logaoedic.
Meaning of logaoedic
Adjective
logaoedic (not comparable)
- Of any metre rhythmically intermediate between ordinary speech (or prose) and song (or poetry), typically combining dactyls and trochees.
- Hence this metre was frequently used by the Æolians, and their strophes were principally formed by connecting logaœdic rhythms with trochees, iambi, and Æolic dactyls.1840, Karl Otfried Müller (author of the original German), George Cornewall Lewis (translator of chapters I–XXII), “The Æolic School of Lyric Poetry.” (chapter XIII, pages 164–189), in History of the...
Forms of logaedic
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Questions about logaedic
- What is logaedic the alternative spelling of?
- Logaedic is the alternative spelling of logaoedic.
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