Sometimes the definitions just can’t be improved on.

No. Haiku because of the of the beautiful description.
Fun to read at parties.

Who talks like this?

Hemiepes:
A dactylic tripody having a spondaic third foot or lacking the two short syllables of the third foot.
Half line of the epic dactylic hexameter. As part of the dactylic pentameter; A verse-form which follows a dactylic hexameter to make up an elegiac couplet. It features two halves, each consisting of two dactyls, for which spondees can be substituted in the first half only, followed by a longum.

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