Adonic

The Adonische verse, also Adonius [ ado nius ː ] or Adoneus [ adone ʊs ː ], is a fünfsilbiges meter of ancient origin. On a length followed by two Shortening, a length, and an optional long or short syllable. It is a Choriambus which is extended at the end of a syllable.

Named is the Adonische verse to their songs to the death of Adonis, namely after the plaintive cry ὦ τὸν Ἄδωνιν ( "Oh, the Adonis !") That corresponds to this meter.

The Adonische verse is mainly used at the end of the Sapphic stanza. In dactylic hexameter results if it has a bucolic dihairesis, as a finale Adoneus, such as in verse 926 of the twelfth book of Virgil's Aeneid:

Per me | di | to stri | dens tran | sit fe | mur. | | In | ci | dit ic | tus - ∪ | ∪ | - | - | - ∪ | ∪ | | - | ∪ | ∪ - | - A German example is the choir of angels from Goethe's Faust II: