having each word one syllable longer than that before
poems whose lines start short and get longer and longer.
• (a.) Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.
Rho·pal'ic adjective [ Greek ............ club-shaped; from ......... a club: confer French rhopalique .] (Pros.) Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.