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Aeolic verse information


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, Sappho and Alcaeus, who composed in their native Aeolic dialect. These verse forms were taken up and developed by later Greek and Roman poets and some modern European poets.

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Aeolic verse

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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...

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Greek and Latin metre

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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...

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Greek prosody

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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...

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Sapphic stanza

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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...

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Aeolic Greek

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

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Choriamb

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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...

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Glyconic

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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...

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Hendecasyllable

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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...

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Elegiac couplet

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

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Metrical foot

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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...

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Alcaic stanza

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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...

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Glossary of poetry terms

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

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Adonic

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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...

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Iambic trimeter

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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...

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Latin prosody

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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...

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Dactylic hexameter

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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...

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Archilochian

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

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Galliambic verse

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Versus Galliambicus (Latin), or the Galliambic Verse (English), is a verse built from two anacreontic cola, the second one catalectic (i.e., lacking its...

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Anceps

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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...

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Choliamb

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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...

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Dodrans

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glyconic line. Also called the choriambo-cretic, the pattern is common in Aeolic verse. Money portal Roman currency Ancient Greek coinage Hale, William Gardner;...

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Metres of Roman comedy

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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...

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Theocritus

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of these are certainly by Theocritus, 28 and 29, composed in Aeolic verse and in the Aeolic dialect. The first is a very graceful poem presented together...

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