Porson's Law, or Porson's Bridge, is a metrical law that applies to iambic trimeter, the main spoken metre of Greek tragedy. It does not apply to iambic...
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Richard Porson (25 December 1759 – 25 September 1808) was an English classical scholar. He was the discoverer of Porson's Law. The Greek typeface Porson was...
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tend to be more resolutions into short syllables than in tragedy, and Porson's Law is not observed. Sometimes even a short element can be replaced by two...
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representing the caesura): | x – u – | x ¦ – u – | x – u – | Finally, Porson's Law is observed, which means here that if the anceps of the third metron...
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Metrical foot Metron (poetry) Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps (prosody) Resolution (meter) Brevis brevians Porson's Law Arsis and thesis Catalexis v t e...
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Both Ritschl's law and the Hermann-Lachman law are less strictly observed in the short syllables of anapaestic metres. "Meyer's law" (/ˈmaɪər/, rhyming...
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Metrical foot Metron (poetry) Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps (prosody) Resolution (meter) Brevis brevians Porson's Law Arsis and thesis Catalexis v t e...
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poetics Negative capability Pathetic fallacy Poetic diction Poetic license Porson's Law Resolution: the phenomenon of replacing a long syllable with 2 short...
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stranger, in Sparta that you saw us lying here while we obey the sacred laws of our fatherland." By the Hellenistic period, the Library of Alexandria...
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syllable') is the study of Latin poetry and its laws of meter. The following article provides an overview of those laws as practised by Latin poets in the late...
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| – – (ionic) "Imitate the good, and you will remain best among mortals. Law is a god. Honour it always and forever." In the first line above there is...
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anacreontic line "consists of seven syllables, without being tied to any certain law of quantity." In the 18th century, the antiquary William Oldys (1696–1761)...
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in general, by a rule called the Hermann-Lachman law (see Metres of Roman comedy#Hermann-Lachman law), the poets generally avoided using dactylic words...
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auro Indignatio mea / ne vos disperdat ob ista. Instructiones 2. In the Law the Lord of heaven, earth, and sea instructed: Do not, He said, worship false...
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short syllable would be placed, if they are long, are unaccented (Meyer's law). In Plautus the line quite often ended with a two-syllable word, such as...
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