adjective
- of or relating to a paeon, a metrical foot consisting of four syllables with one long and three short syllables in various arrangements
Usage: prosody; technical; chiefly used in classical and literary analysis
Examples
- The paeonic meter appears frequently in ancient Greek dramatic verse.
- Scholars debate the exact scansion of paeonic feet in Homeric poetry.
- The poet employed paeonic rhythms to create a distinctive metrical pattern.
- Understanding paeonic structure is essential for analyzing classical prosody.