单词 | paeon |
释义 | paeonn. Prosody. In Greek and Latin poetry: a metrical foot consisting of one long and three short syllables. Also in later use: a foot in English verse consisting of one stressed and three unstressed syllables.The position of the long (or stressed) syllable in a paeon is variable, and determines whether the paeon is termed first, second, third, or fourth.Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) is one of the few poets to have used the paeon in English verse. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > foot > four syllables of which any one long paeon1603 paeonic1879 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Words Pæon or Pæeon, the name of Apollo, and of a metricall foot in verse, of which Pæans are composed. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 459 The Poet was constrain'd of mere necessity to use a Pæon instead of a Dactyl. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Pæan or Pæon..so called, as commonly supposed, because appropriated to the Hymn Pæan; tho' Quintilian derives the Name from its Inventor Pæon, a Physician. 1784 J. B. Seale Anal. Greek Metres 25 In the intermediate places a second Pæon is occasionally joined to a second or third Epitrete, so that the two Feet together are equal in time to two Ionic Feet. 1867 R. C. Jebb Sophocles' Electra (1870) 125/2 The antistrophic verse has a paeon..in the first place. a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1918) 4 The so-called accentual Trochee, Dactyl, and the First Paeon. 1957 Amer. Slavic & East European Rev. 16 224 Theories which account for variation by the term paeons, spondees, pyrrhics, ionics, etc., are avoided as a ‘useless sacrifice of the line to the foot’. 1997 C. F. Hasty Meter as Rhythm i. ii. 26 Within Klang-Füße neither shorts nor longs are required to present equal durations or equal divisions. For example, the second paeon (short-long-short-short) is represented by a bar containing the succession quarter-half-eighth-eighth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1603 |
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