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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

four classical meters known as the Aeolics: Glyconic (the most basic form of Aeolic line), hendecasyllabic verse, Sapphic stanza, and Alcaic stanza (the...

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...

work. Each couplet consists of a dactylic hexameter verse followed by a dactylic pentameter verse. The following is a graphic representation of its scansion:...

Traditional Welsh Accentual verse Accentual-syllabic verse Syllabic verse Adonic Aeolic Glyconic: most basic form of aeolic verse. Alcmanian Archilochian...

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...

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...

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...

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...

were typically used for shorter poems than elegiacs or hexameter. In Aeolic verse, one important line was called the hendecasyllabic, a line of eleven...

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...

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...

verse is an old Latin and Italic poetic form, of which the principles of versification have become obscure. Only 132 complete uncontroversial verses survive...

caesura is observed before the ithyphallic (– u – u – –) ending of the verse. (Because of this, the name erasmonideus has sometimes been used to refer...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Adoneus may refer to: Adoneus, the Latin name of an adonic, a unit of Aeolic verse Adoneus, a Latinised name of the Greek god Adonis Adoneus, a Latin epithet...

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...

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 –...

are unaccompanied iambic senarii, but in Terence more than half of the verses are senarii. Plautus's plays therefore had a greater amount of musical accompaniment...

desire to balance metrical units with their mirror images. The Ionic and Aeolic meters are closely related, as evidenced by the polyschematist unit x x...

that poets sought in most lines to make the word accent coincide with the verse rhythm, and so usually the last word in the line has either two or three...

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...