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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(poetry) A metrical foot of five syllables used in Greek tragedy for highly anguished scenes. The metrical pattern is typically: short-long-long-short-long..
Yet there is good reason to doubt the existence of any such; —good reason to think, that dochmiuses belong to the triple rhythm
This chorus, which consists almost entirely of dochmii, is so corrupt as to present various problems of an almost insoluble character, although portions of it have yielded to the brilliant emendatory efforts of Hermann.
Every dochmius is catalectic, representing an original phrase of nine primary times.
Use dochmius when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dochmius means (poetry) A metrical foot of five syllables used in Greek tragedy for highly anguished scenes. The metrical pattern is typically: short-long-long-short-long..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Yet there is good reason to doubt the existence of any such; —good reason to think, that dochmiuses belong to the triple rhythm
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