1. A metrical system in classical poetry, especially Greek and Latin verse, consisting of lines composed of glyconic feet or units.
Usage: technical; classical literature; plural form; singular is 'glyconic'

Examples

• The poet employed glyconics in the choral passages of the drama.
• Glyconics appear frequently in Greek lyric poetry and dramatic choruses.
• Scholars analyze the glyconics used by Sappho in her surviving fragments.
• The metrical pattern of glyconics consists of a spondee followed by a dactyl and two trochees.