#prosody

• Alcaic — Pertaining to or characteristic of the Greek poet Alcaeus or the metrical structure invented by him. In ancient and classical prosody, the term describes a type of verse or a stanza composed of a specific combination of long and short syllables (a special hendecasyllable), later successfully adopted by Latin poets, most notably by Horace in his Odes.
• Alcmanian — Pertaining to or characteristic of the Greek poet Alcman or the metrical structure utilized by him. In ancient and classical prosody, the term describes a type of verse (the alcmanian verse) consisting of a dactylic tetrameter catalectic, frequently utilized in choral compositions of archaic Greece.
• Amphibrach (archaic) — An obsolete, archaic, or regional adjectival or nominal form of the modern term 'amfibrah'; a trisyllabic metrical foot used in classical metrics or old accentual poetry, structurally consisting of one long syllable positioned between two short syllables. In old 19th-century poetics handbooks, it served as basic nomenclature for scanning and rhythmic analysis of stanzas.
• Anapest — A metrical foot in ancient Greek and Latin verse, as well as in modern classical prosody, consisting of three syllables, the first two of which are unaccented (short) and the last accented (long). The rhythm generated by this structure has a dynamic, marching, or ascending character, mimicking a march or an accelerated movement, used historically in war songs in Greek tragedies and in Romanian poetry to create powerful sonorous effects.
• Anapestic — Pertaining to the anapest, consisting of anapests, or based on the structure of this metrical foot. In literary theory, anapestic rhythm describes the ascending cadence obtained through the constant succession of two unaccented syllables and one accented syllable, representing an energetic, dynamic rhythm often used in epic, satirical, or revolutionary poetry to suggest alert movement or galloping.
• Antibacchius — A metrical foot in classical Greek and Latin poetry consisting of three syllables, the first two long and the last one short (— — ◡). It is the exact structural inverse of the bacchius foot.
• Aprosody — An extended or very rare neological variant for 'aprosodie' or 'aprozie'; the absence of prosodic elements in speech. In a linguistic sense, it can describe a completely flat, monotonous style of recitation or speech, devoid of versification, musical rhythm, or dynamic accents, encountered accidentally as a structural barrier in communication.
• Asclepiad — In ancient Greek and Latin metrics, a verse consisting of a spondee, two or three dactyls, and a trochee, named after the poet Asclepiades of Samos. In botany, the term denotes a plant belonging to the Asclepiadaceae family or exhibiting similar morphological characteristics, often featuring milky sap and flowers with complex pollination structures.
• The asclepiad — The definite articulated form of the masculine noun 'asclepiad'; it specifically denotes the ancient verse composed of a spondee, two or three dactyls, and a trochee, or the individual plant specimen belonging to the Asclepiadaceae family. In structural philological contexts, this form indicates a direct reference to a specific metrical fragment or poem composed according to the prosodic rules established by the Greek poet Asclepiades.
• Assonant — Containing an assonance or based on the repetition of the same stressed vowel inside words or at the end of verses; a term used in stylistics and prosody to describe verses or imperfect rhymes where only the vowels from the accent onward match, while the consonants differ, creating a subtle sound harmony and internal musicality.