The folowing description is reposted with permission from Poetry Magnum Opus, with thanks to Judi Van Gorder for years of work on that fine resource.
The Rhopalic Couplet, (Greek = club like or thicker at the end, also called Wedge Verse, first used by Homer in the Iliad 3.182,) a poetic unit of 2 rhopalic lines, each word progresses adding 1 more syllable than the preceding word in the line. The lines can either be parallel or the order can be reversed in the second line. The lines need not be rhymed.
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or
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xxxx xxx xx x
My Example
Form: Rhopalic Couplet
Soothsayer (Rhopalic Couplet)
I predict recurring occurrences
by finding cyclical phenomena
that possess meaningful correlations
influencing selected target base.
© Lawrencealot – February 16, 2015