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Skelˈtonic, a. and n.
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a. adj. = next.
1843Dyce in Skelton's Wks. I. p. cxxix, A poem called Philargyrie..has been frequently mentioned as a ‘Skeltonic’ composition. 1938L. MacNeice Mod. Poetry 190 Witness his [sc. Auden's] Skeltonic polemic. 1954C. S. Lewis Eng. Lit. in Sixteenth Cent. i. i. 72 Pars Prima is in rough trimeters of Skeltonic type. Ibid. ii. 137 There would be no problem if all Skelton's Skeltonic poems had been on this level.
b. n. pl. Skeltonical lines. Also sing.
1908G. Saintsbury in Camb. Hist. English Lit. II. 212 Irregular octosyllables, sometimes approaching ‘Skeltonics’. 1923A. Huxley in Athenæum 12 Nov. 655/2 Skelton, whose..variations on the decasyllable are mostly..rough skeltonics. 1936N. & Q. 21 Nov. 362/1 The Skeltonic consists of short verses of two, three or four accents..varying in syllabic content..and rhyming in groups of anything from two to five or more lines at a time. 1954C. S. Lewis Eng. Lit. in Sixteenth Cent. i. ii. 136 The problem about the source of Skeltonics sinks into insignificance beside the critical problem. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Mar. 295/3 [Hood's] ‘A Public Dinner’ catches exactly in its breathless Skeltonics the noise and hurry of the occasion. |