Prosody (from Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδίᾱ (prosōidíā), "song sung to music; pronunciation of syllable") is...

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...

studies Prosody (Greek), the theory and practice of Greek versification Prosody (Latin), the study of Latin versification and its laws of meter Prosody (linguistics)...

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...

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...

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...

Latin prosody (from Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδία prosōidía, "song sung to music, pronunciation of syllable")...

Cypriot Greek (Greek: κυπριακή ελληνική locally [cipriaˈci elːiniˈci] or κυπριακά [cipriaˈka]) is the variety of Modern Greek that is spoken by the majority...

In Greek and Latin poetry, a choriamb /ˈkɔːriˌæmb/ (Ancient Greek: χορίαμβος - khoriambos) is a metron (prosodic foot) consisting of four syllables in...

Although the pyrrhic by itself is not used in analysis of classical Greek prosody, examples exist of epigrammatic poems that employ nothing but short...

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...

epode was carried to its height by Pindar. With the development of Greek prosody, various peculiar strophe-forms came into general acceptance, and were...

sometimes replaced by two short syllables (see Resolution (meter) and Prosody (Greek)#Iambic). In the trochaic metres, on the other hand, the anceps comes...

the mandatory dactyl in the fifth foot. Latin rhythmic hexameter Prosody (Greek) Prosody (Latin) Meters of Roman comedy Trochaic septenarius Brevis in longo...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

alternative modern term, "irrational rhythm", was originally borrowed from Greek prosody where it referred to "a syllable having a metrical value not corresponding...

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...

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...

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,...

D. (1980). "Review Article: Latin Prosody and Meter: Brevis Brevians". Review of Latin-Romance Phonology: Prosodics and Metrics by Ernst Pulgram. Classical...

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...

Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period. The more complex polytonic orthography (Greek: πολυτονικό σύστημα...

(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...

papyrological hyphen, or Greek hyphen was a low tie mark found in late Classical and Byzantine papyri. In an era when Greek texts were typically written...

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...