Aeolic verse is a classification of Ancient Greek lyric poetry referring to the distinct verse forms characteristic of the two great poets of Archaic Lesbos...
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Metron (poetry) (section Aeolic verse)
below). Aeolic metres are not usually analysed in terms of metra. D. S. Raven writes: "Unlike the metres described in previous chapters, aeolic does not...
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four classical meters known as the Aeolics: Glyconic (the most basic form of Aeolic line), hendecasyllabic verse, Sapphic stanza, and Alcaic stanza (the...
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Greek and Latin metre (section Aeolic verse)
Archilochian Alcmanian These metres were imitated in Latin in Horace's Epodes. Aeolic verse begins with the short lyric poems of the Lesbian poets Sappho and Alcaeus...
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Greek prosody (section Aeolic)
A development of Aeolic verse, but less regular and more varied, is found in the choral odes of Pindar and Bacchylides. The Aeolic meter is built upon...
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Sapphic stanza (section Aeolic Greek)
Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines. Originally composed in quantitative verse and unrhymed, since the Middle Ages imitations...
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Glyconic (category Types of verses)
The glyconic line is the most basic and most commonly used form of Aeolic verse, and it is often combined with others. The basic shape (often abbreviated...
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occur in spoken verse, as distinguished from true lyric or sung verse. The choriamb is sometimes regarded as the "nucleus" of Aeolic verse, because the pattern...
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Elegiac couplet (redirect from Elegiac verse)
work. Each couplet consists of a dactylic hexameter verse followed by a dactylic pentameter verse. The following is a graphic representation of its scansion:...
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Alcaic stanza (redirect from Alcaic verse)
The Alcaic stanza is a Greek lyrical meter, an Aeolic verse form traditionally believed to have been invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from Mytilene on...
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that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of...
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Glossary of poetry terms (section Verse meters)
Traditional Welsh Accentual verse Accentual-syllabic verse Syllabic verse Adonic Aeolic Glyconic: most basic form of aeolic verse. Alcmanian Archilochian...
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Hendecasyllable (redirect from Hendecasyllabic verse)
11-syllable Aeolic meters, used first in Ancient Greece and later, with little modification, by Roman poets. Aeolic meters are characterized by an Aeolic base...
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Adonic (category Types of verses)
An adonic (Latin: adoneus) is a unit of Aeolic verse, a five-syllable metrical foot consisting of a dactyl followed by a trochee. The last line of a Sapphic...
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Metre (poetry) (redirect from Quantitative Verse)
were typically used for shorter poems than elegiacs or hexameter. In Aeolic verse, one important line was called the hendecasyllabic, a line of eleven...
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Iambic trimeter (category Types of verses)
half of the verse), the word accents coincided with the strong points of the line, that is the 2nd, 4th, 6th etc. elements of the verse. Thus even in...
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Archilochian (category Types of verses)
caesura is observed before the ithyphallic (– u – u – –) ending of the verse. (Because of this, the name erasmonideus has sometimes been used to refer...
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Dactylic hexameter (category Types of verses)
dactylic hexameter line paired with a dactylic pentameter line. This form of verse was used for love poetry by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, for Ovid's letters...
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Asclepiad (poetry) (category Types of verses)
is attributed to Asclepiades of Samos and is one of the Aeolic metres. As with other Aeolic metrical lines, the asclepiad is built around a choriamb...
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Latin prosody (section Latin verse: a Greek gift)
employing Greek lyrical forms, though he calls himself the first to bring Aeolic verse to Rome. He identified with, among others, Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene...
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Saturnian (poetry) (redirect from Saturnian Verse)
verse is an old Latin and Italic poetic form, of which the principles of versification have become obscure. Only 132 complete uncontroversial verses survive...
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Versus Galliambicus (Latin), or the Galliambic Verse (English), is a verse built from two anacreontic cola, the second one catalectic (i.e., lacking its...
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Anacreontics (redirect from Anacreontic verse)
Anacreontics are verses in a metre used by the Greek poet Anacreon in his poems dealing with love and wine. His later Greek imitators (whose surviving...
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Choliamb (category Types of verses)
Choliambic verse (Ancient Greek: χωλίαμβος), also known as limping iambs or scazons or halting iambic, is a form of meter in poetry. It is found in both...
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captus amōre is acceptable in dactylic verse, e.g. Ovid Met. 6.465.) Another restriction of iambo-trochaic verse, called the Hermann-Lachman law, is that...
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glyconic line. Also called the choriambo-cretic, the pattern is common in Aeolic verse. "Dodrans" is the root of "dodranscentennial" (75th anniversary) and...
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x | – u – x || – u – x | – u – | Anceps elements are also found in the Aeolic metres, such as the Sapphic metre, in which the first three lines are as...
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Hendecasyllable Choliamb Aeolic verse Choriamb Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre...
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Anaclasis (poetry) (section Aeolic metres)
anceps) in a parallel part of a verse or poem. Thus for example, Martin West applies the term to metres of the aeolic type, in which sometimes | – x –...
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Theocritus (category Aeolic Greek poets)
of these are certainly by Theocritus, 28 and 29, composed in Aeolic verse and in the Aeolic dialect. The first is a very graceful poem presented together...
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