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How to use anacreontic in a sentence

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The whimsical drunk given to the occasional half-rhymed, fireside anacreontic is a pretty poor relation of the poet.
Shakespeare's last two sonnets are variations on an anacreontic epigram from The Greek Anthology.
I began by reading aloud an anacreontic, adding to its beauties by the modulation of my voice, and keenly enjoying her pleasure at finding her work so fair.
This form of the Trochaic is sometimes called Anacreontic, but very erroneously, as Anacreon's metre is quite different.
Tomlinson wrote the poetry of the Anacreontic song, which Stafford Smith set to music.
The Anacreontic poems were later discovered to have been composed by a number of poets over seven centuries.
In a world that was hostile to their practices and beliefs, the Anacreontic tradition will have given them a more sympathetic imaginary home.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is the possible visits of Duke Wharton, and a few of his Anacreontic associates, that excite my apprehension.
He said this to himself as an officer was trolling forth an Anacreontic song.
The song is good in itself, but it is even more interesting as being the last product of Peacock's Anacreontic vein.
There is too much of merely Anacreontic prettiness about the description of the bridal bed and the lamenting Loves.
This statue may represent one of the youthful favourites of the tyrant Polycrates hymning his master's love in Anacreontic strain.
The peculiar verse of Skelton, styled skeltonical, is a sort of English Anacreontic.
He wrote Anacreontic poems, full of wine and love, and appears to us like a reveller masking in a surplice.
In the succeeding example the sentiment is still more Anacreontic.
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