Prosody (from Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδίᾱ (prosōidíā), "song sung to music; pronunciation of syllable") is...
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foot in Greek prosody. The metrical unit in Sanskrit prosody is the verse (line, pada), while in Greek prosody it is the foot. Sanskrit prosody allows...
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Metrical foot (redirect from Foot (prosody))
plural pedes, which in turn is a translation of the Ancient Greek πούς, pl. πόδες. The Ancient Greek prosodists, who invented this terminology, specified that...
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studies Prosody (Greek), the theory and practice of Greek versification Prosody (Latin), the study of Latin versification and its laws of meter Prosody (linguistics)...
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Latin prosody (from Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδία prosōidía, "song sung to music, pronunciation of syllable")...
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Iamb (poetry) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in καλή (kalḗ) "beautiful...
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foot used in Latin and Greek prosody. It consists of a long syllable between two short syllables. The word comes from the Greek ἀμφίβραχυς, amphíbrakhys...
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Cypriot Greek (Greek: κυπριακή ελληνική locally [cipriaˈci elːiniˈci] or κυπριακά [cipriaˈka]) is the variety of Modern Greek that is spoken by the majority...
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Choriamb (section English prosody)
In Greek and Latin poetry, a choriamb /ˈkɔːriˌæmb/ (Ancient Greek: χορίαμβος - khoriambos) is a metron (prosodic foot) consisting of four syllables in...
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Anceps (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
sometimes replaced by two short syllables (see Resolution (meter) and Prosody (Greek)#Iambic). In the trochaic metres, on the other hand, the anceps comes...
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Strophe (category Ancient Greek theatre)
epode was carried to its height by Pindar. With the development of Greek prosody, various peculiar strophe-forms came into general acceptance, and were...
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Pyrrhic (category Articles containing Greek-language text)
Although the pyrrhic by itself is not used in analysis of classical Greek prosody, examples exist of epigrammatic poems that employ nothing but short...
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Greek and Latin metre is an overall term used for the various rhythms in which Greek and Latin poems were composed. The individual rhythmical patterns...
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Dactylic hexameter (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
the mandatory dactyl in the fifth foot. Latin rhythmic hexameter Prosody (Greek) Prosody (Latin) Meters of Roman comedy Trochaic septenarius Brevis in longo...
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Sapphic stanza (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Middle Ages imitations of the form typically feature rhyme and accentual prosody. It is "the longest lived of the Classical lyric strophes in the West"...
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where a pair of short syllables can freely be replaced by a long one. In Greek and Latin poetry, it is found in the dactylic hexameter and the first half...
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Elegiac couplet (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman poets, particularly...
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Choliamb (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
(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 Greek and Latin...
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of the hexameter and other Greek verse forms. Quintus Ennius is the poet who is generally credited with introducing the Greek hexameter in Latin, and dramatic...
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in English prosody is the iambic pentameter, while one of the most common of traditional lines in surviving classical Latin and Greek prosody was the hexameter...
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alternative modern term, "irrational rhythm", was originally borrowed from Greek prosody where it referred to "a syllable having a metrical value not corresponding...
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Metre (poetry) (redirect from Prosody (poetry))
of metres and forms of versification are both known as prosody. (Within linguistics, "prosody" is used in a more general sense that includes not only...
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Metres of Roman comedy (category Prosodies by language)
always short in Greek (the 1st, 3rd, and 5th anceps syllables) are long in about 60% of lines; while those which are anceps in Greek (namely the 2nd,...
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feminine rhymes (as is the case with the Lusiads). This is due to Portuguese prosody considering verses to end at the last stressed syllable, thus the aforementioned...
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Brevis brevians (category Prosodies by language)
D. (1980). "Review Article: Latin Prosody and Meter: Brevis Brevians". Review of Latin-Romance Phonology: Prosodics and Metrics by Ernst Pulgram. Classical...
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Porson's Law (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Devine and Stephens in their book The Prosody of Greek Speech, is that in certain contexts some long syllables in Greek had a longer duration than others...
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Iambic trimeter (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
were always short in Greek, were anceps (either long or short) in Latin; in fact they are long 60% of the time, while the Greek anceps syllables (the...
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Stephens, Laurence D. (1994). The Prosody of Greek Speech. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508546-9. G. Horrocks (1997): Greek: A History of the Language...
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Trochee (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
septenarius and trochaic octonarius. Monometer Prosody (Latin) Substitution (poetry), Trochaic substitution Prosody (Greek) Trochaic septenarius Chisholm, Hugh...
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Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period. The more complex polytonic orthography (Greek: πολυτονικό σύστημα...
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