senarius
/sɪˈnɛːrɪəs
/noun (plural senarii /sɪˈnɛːrɪiː/ /sɪˈnɛːrɪʌɪ/) Prosody
A verse of six feet, especially an iambic trimeter.His fables, written in iambic senarii, consist of beast-tales based largely on ‘Aesop’, as well as jokes and instructive stories taken not only from Hellenistic collections but also from his own personal experience....
- Preserving the iambic senarii proved too restrictive, so I switched to a vaguely anapaestic waltz rhythm and made up a tune that allowed our singer to put a comic pause, if she wished, before the final syllables at the end of each line.
- In the tragic senarius the divisions of the sense normally coincide with the main divisions of the metrical structure.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin (see senary).