Skeltonicadj.n.
A. adj.
adj. = Skeltonical adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [adjective] > in style of specific writer
Skeltonical1589
Anacreontic1602
Anacreontical1698
Skeltonic1843
Skeltonian1867
1843 A. Dyce in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. I. p. cxxix A poem called Philargyrie..has been frequently mentioned as a ‘Skeltonic’ composition.
1938 L. MacNeice Mod. Poetry 190 Witness his [sc. Auden's] Skeltonic polemic.
1954 C. S. Lewis Eng. Lit. in 16th Cent. i. i. 72 Pars Prima is in rough trimeters of Skeltonic type.
1954 C. S. Lewis Eng. Lit. in 16th Cent. i. ii. 137 There would be no problem if all Skelton's Skeltonic poems had been on this level.
B. n.
n. plural. Skeltonical lines. Also singular.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > poems in style of specific writer
Byronic1850
Skeltonic1908
Miltonics1928
1908 G. Saintsbury in Cambr. Hist. English Lit. II. 212 Irregular octosyllables, sometimes approaching ‘Skeltonics’.
1923 A. Huxley in Athenæum 12 Nov. 655/2 Skelton, whose..variations on the decasyllable are mostly..rough skeltonics.
1936 Notes & Queries 21 Nov. 362/1 The Skeltonic consists of short verses of two, three or four accents..varying in syllabic content..and rhyming in groups of anything from two to five or more lines at a time.
1954 C. S. Lewis Eng. Lit. in 16th Cent. i. ii. 136 The problem about the source of Skeltonics sinks into insignificance beside the critical problem.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Mar. 295/3 [Hood's] ‘A Public Dinner’ catches exactly in its breathless Skeltonics the noise and hurry of the occasion.
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