The sotadean metre (pronounced: /soʊtəˈdiən/) was a rhythmic pattern used by and named after the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Sotades. It is generally classified...

trimeter These are not the only stichic metres used in Greek and Latin poetry. Among others are: Eupolidean Sotadean Anapaestic septenarius Galliambic Phalaecian...

considered to be made up of feet, e.g. hendecasyllable. In some kinds of metre, such as the Greek iambic trimeter, two feet are combined into a larger...

her surviving poetry: fragments 1-42. Sappho's most famous poem in this metre is Sappho 31, which begins as follows: Φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θέοισιν ἔμμεν...

In languages with quantitative poetic metres, such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit, and classical Persian, an anceps (plural ancipitia or (syllabae)...

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addition, in two of his poems (55 and 58b) Catullus uses a variation of the metre, in which the 4th and 5th syllables can sometimes be contracted into a single...

sequence x – corresponds to – x in a parallel part of the same metre. The analysis of the sotadean is made more problematic by the fact that it is unclear where...

Saturnian Metre. First Paper". American Journal of Philology. 14 (2): 139–170. doi:10.2307/288103. JSTOR 288103. Lindsay, W.M. (1893). "The Saturnian Metre. Second...

his reasons for refusing to write either in the galliambic or in the sotadean metre: quod nec carmine glōrior supīnō nec retrō lego Sōtadēn cinaedum, "Because...

Greek Metre: An Introduction. (Routledge) Raven, D. S. (1965). Latin Metre: An Introduction. (Routledge) West, M. L. (1987). Introduction to Greek Metre. Oxford:...

Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 51, pp. 151, 164, 169. Reading Latin Verse Aloud: Metre and Scansion What is Elegy? (Archive.org)...

celebrated among the indigenous inhabitants, and named it after Sotades. Sotadean metre Suda σ 871 Fontaine, M. "Before Pussy Riot: Free Speech and Censorship...

Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac Lekythion Anaclasis (poetry) Metrical foot...

Bridge, is a metrical law that applies to iambic trimeter, the main spoken metre of Greek tragedy. It does not apply to iambic trimeter in Greek comedy....

In iambic and trochaic metres, the two syllables of the brevis breviāns for the most part are found where an element in the metre has been resolved into...

Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac Lekythion Anaclasis (poetry) Metrical foot...

use different patterns of long and short syllables, known as meters (UK: metres). For example, the epic poems of Homer were composed using the pattern |...

Commentary on Horace Odes Book 1, pp. xxviii, xliv. Raven, D. S. (1965), Latin Metre, p. 146. Becker, A. S. (2012). "Rhythm in a Sinuous Stanza: The Anatomy...

metre". The Classical Quarterly, 32(2), 281–297; pp. 287–8. D. S. Raven (1965). Latin Metre: An Introduction, p. 142. D. S. Raven (1965). Latin Metre:...

cola, the second one catalectic (i.e., lacking its final syllable). The metre typically has resolution in the last metron, and often elsewhere, leading...

The form 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...

tend to follow the ictus of the metre. However, with a dactylic hexameter, except in the last two feet, where metre and accent coincide, this is not...

representing an anceps position that may be heavy or light). The sotadeion or sotadean, named after the Hellenistic poet Sotades, has been classified as ionic...

occurrence in Greek drama is in lines of iambic trimeter, the most frequent metre used in spoken dialogue, i.e. lines of the type x — u — | x — u — | x —...

Archilochian or archilochean is a term used to describe several metres of Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The name is derived from Archilochus, whose poetry...

In Greek and Latin metre, brevis in longo (/ˈbrɛvɪs ɪn ˈlɒŋɡoʊ/; Classical Latin: [ˈbrɛwɪs ɪn ˈlɔŋɡoː]) is a short syllable at the end of a line that...

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...

(1965). Latin Metre: An Introduction, p. 92. D. S. Raven (1965). Latin Metre: An Introduction, pp. 115–6. Jun Terasawa, Old English Metre: An Introduction...

92 (1): 23–50. JSTOR 4475286. Retrieved 25 July 2022. West, Martin (1982). Greek Metre. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 108–115: 108–109. v t e...