Paeonic

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Peter Lewis Groves (Monash University)

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A paeonic metre is an ictosyllabic metre (q.v.) with three off-beats separating successive beats within the line:

I am the ve-ry mo-del of a mo-dern Ma-jor-General,I’ve in-for-ma-tion ve-ge-ta-ble, a-ni-mal, and mineral,

I am

the ve-ry

mo-

del of a

-dern Ma-jor

-General,I’ve in-

for-ma-tion

ve-

ge-ta-ble

, a-

ni-mal, and

mineral,

(W. S. Gilbert, “The Major-General’s Song”)

There was move-ment at the sta-tion for the word had passed a-roundThat the colt from old Re-gret had got away

There was move

-ment at the

sta-

tion for the

word

had passed a-

roundThat the colt

from old Re-

gret

had got a

way

(‘Banjo’ Patterson, “The Man from Snowy River”)

Paeonic

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Citation: Groves, Peter Lewis. "Paeonic". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 June 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1759, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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