rhopalic adj (of a verse) having each word a syllable longer than the one before n rhopalism [Origin from Greek rhopalikos clublike, rhopalon a club] Chambers, 1998
This pesky syllable experiment
is rather dismally problematic.
It's also acutely irritating.
Enough of that nonsense. Nice sounding word, though.
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