Rhopalic

[mhw]

A line of poetry in which each word but the first is one syllable longer than the word preceding it.

From the Greek ῥοπαλικός, rhopalikos, club-shaped, or thicker towards one end.

Comments

[hitchhiker]

hig gledy piggledy
old grecian rhopalics
leave modern anglophones
underimpressed

length-counted metrical
interdependencies
not being properly
syllablestressed

[mhw]

Nice!

[kightp]

Move aside and let me share the fainting couch. (-:

[sunnydale47]

Fantastic ... as always!

[zbtron]

it isnt iambic pentameter
still lovely, thoroughly entertaining
this modern anglophone
still remains quatraining

[dewzi]

well done!

[leiacat]

*takes a ticket and gets in line to swoon*

Wow. Just, wow.