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amoebaean
[am-uh-bee-uhn]
adjective
alternately responsive, as verses in dialogue.
amoebaean
/ ˌæɪˈːə /
adjective
prosody of or relating to lines of verse dialogue that answer each other alternately
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of amoebaean1
Example Sentences
The rapid elliptic method of amoebaean dialogue is more in his manner than in any English poet's known to me except the writer of this scene; but indeed Marston is in more points than one the most Italian of our dramatists.
This kind of Amoebaean dialogue was early ridiculed by the ingenious author of "Hudibras."
Between the lines of these mutual recitals sweet, fresh echoes of the old, old story went from heart to heart, an amoebaean love-bout like that of spring birds calling tenderly back and forth in the blooming Maytime woods.
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