释义 |
‖ ˈsdrucciola, a. Obs. rare. [It. sdrucciola (sc. rima), fem. of sdrucciolo), lit. ‘slippery’, whence Sp. esdrújulo, used similarly with reference to versification.] Epithet of that kind of rhyme in which the words ending the lines are accented on the antepenultimate; trisyllabic (rhyme). English writers on verse have sometimes used sdrucciolo, or the phrase versi sdruccioli, as a foreign technical term, esp. in referring to Italian poetry.
a1586Sidney Apol. Poetry (Arb.) 71 Lastly, euen the very ryme it selfe, the Italian cannot put in the last silable, by the French named the Masculine ryme, but still in the next to the last, which the French call the Female; or the next before that, which the Italians terme Sdrucciola. The example..of the Sdrucciola [is] Femina, Semina. 1605Chapman All Fools ii. i. 176 In any Rime Masculine, Feminine, Or Sdruciolla [printed Sdrnciolla]. |