1) Ancient Greek religious title 2) Herb 3) Herbaceous plant 4) Type of verse
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[poetry] An Asclepiad is a line of poetry following a particular metrical pattern. The form is attributed to Asclepiades of Samos and is one of the Aeolic metres. As with other Aeolic metrical lines, the asclepiad is built around a choriamb. The Asclepiad may be described as a glyconic that has been expanded with one (Lesser Asclepiad) or t...
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a Classical metrical line made up of a spondee, two or three choriambs, and one iamb or spondee, i.e., / ' ' / ' ~ ~ ' / ' ~ ~ ' / ~ ' / (named after the Greek poet Asclepiades, ca. 290 B.C.). Examples of accentual asclepiads in English include Sir Philip Sidney's 'O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness' from Arcadia, and W. H. Auden's 'In Due ...
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• (n.) A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.
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Greek lyric verse later used by Latin poets such as Catullus, Horace, and Seneca. The asclepiad consisted of an aeolic nucleus, a choriamb to which ...
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A classical metrical line made up of a spondee, two or three choriambs, and one iamb or spondee, i.e
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As·cle'pi·ad noun (Gr. & Latin Pros.) A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.
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n] - any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae
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noun any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae
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