"Dicrotism" Pronounce,Meaning And Examples

"Dicrotism" Meaning

Dicrotism is a rhetorical device that refers to a repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry, where the emphasis alternates between the first and second syllables, or the first and third syllables, and so on.

"Dicrotism" Examples

Dicrotism


A dicrotism is a literary term that refers to a repetition of two consecutive stressed syllables in a poetic line. Here are 5 examples of its usage:

| Example | Poem/Author |
| --- | --- |
| The dicrotism "Ho, ho, 'tis" occurs in Shakespeare's Macbeth to emphasize the speaker's excitement and surprise. | Macbeth by William Shakespeare |
| The dicrotism "Ah, ah, my friend" in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" creates a sense of nostalgia and longing. | The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot |
| In "The Love Songs of J. Alfred Prufrock", T.S. Eliot uses the dicrotism "Do I dare? Do I dare?" to convey the speaker's procrastination and uncertainty. | The Love Songs of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot |
| In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", the repetitive dicrotism "Quoth the Raven, Nevermore. Quoth the Raven, Nevermore." serves as a haunting refrain. | The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe |
| The dicrotism "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree" in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" creates a sense of rhythm and rhyme. | Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge |