Roman comedy is mainly represented by two playwrights, Plautus (writing between c.205 and 184 BC) and Terence (writing c.166-160 BC). The works of other...

of Classical Sanskrit Verse". Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Mar., 2007), pp. 63-114. Prosody (Greek) Prosody (Latin) Metres of Roman comedy...

is a form of ancient poetic metre first used in 7th century BC Greek literature. It was one of the two most common metres of Roman comedy of the early...

foot. Latin rhythmic hexameter Prosody (Greek) Prosody (Latin) Meters of Roman comedy Trochaic septenarius Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps Resolution (meter)...

centuries later, the Roman poet Catullus admired Sappho's work and used the Sapphic stanza in two poems: Catullus 11 (commemorating the end of his affair with...

poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman poets, particularly Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus...

for composition both in comedy and tragedy. They are fairly frequent in Plautus but rarer in Terence. (See Metres of Roman comedy.) Words which include...

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...

as "metres" (US "meters"). Greek poetry developed first, starting as early as the 8th century BC with the epic poems of Homer and didactic poems of Hesiod...

the middle of the line, but as can be seen above, this is not always the case in comedy. This metre is also frequently used in Roman comedies, where it...

in spoken dialogue in Roman comedy. There were also metres called the septēnārius and octōnārius (see Metres of Roman comedy). The dēnārius was a silver...

of brevis in longo is observed, so the last syllable can actually be short or long. The Roman poet Catullus' poems 8, 22 and 39 serve as examples of choliambic...

trimeter was adapted for the spoken parts of Roman plays, especially Roman comedy. The form used in Roman comedy is usually known as the iambic senarius...

metres. In the iambic senarius, brevis breviāns is most commonly found at the beginning of the verse. The two most common metres used in Roman comedy...

with the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European meter. Goldberg's book is an excellent treatment of the development of Roman epic from Livius Andronicus...

final element must be a long syllable, not a double short (see Metres of Roman comedy): | uu – uu – | uu – uu – || uu – uu – | uu – uu – | | uu – uu –...

New Comedy for Roman audiences. He not only established the genre fabula palliata, but also adapted meters from Greek drama to meet the needs of Latin...

3rd-century BC Greek poet Sotades. It is generally classified as a type of ionic metre, though in fact it is half ionic and half trochaic. It has several variations...

consisting of four syllables in the pattern long-short-short-long (— ‿ ‿ —), that is, a trochee alternating with an iamb. Choriambs are one of the two basic...

want for yourself, woman worthy of black elephants?      Why (do you send) me gifts and billets-doux?' It is the only metre in Horace's Epodes not to contain...

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...

fixed and absolute. See Spelling of Shakespeare's name. Terence was treated as a prose author, as the metres of Roman comedy were not understood in the 16th...

William Smith (1873). A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology: Phalaecus. Raven, D. S. (1965). Latin Metre, pp. 177, 180–181. Quinn, Kenneth...

and trochaic metres commonly used in Roman comedy and can be found both in strong (long) elements and in weak (anceps) elements. In comedy there is no...

several metres of Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The name is derived from Archilochus, whose poetry first uses the rhythms. In the analysis of Archaic...

hexameter and the first half of a dactylic pentameter, and also in anapaestic metres. It is not to be confused with resolution, which is a phenomenon where a...

Persian metre as equivalent to – u. This metre is, however, rather rare, being found in just 0.6% of lyric poems. Two of the most common metres in Persian...

is a line of poetry following a particular metrical pattern. The form is attributed to Asclepiades of Samos and is one of the Aeolic metres. As with other...

(1976), The Persian Metres, p. 162. Farzaad, Masoud (1967), Persian poetic meters: a synthetic study., p. 60. Thiesen (1982), A Manual of Classical Persian...

anapaestic metres. In some cases the last element of a metre is omitted. In this case the metre is called "catalectic". For example, the following metre is known...