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 the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC.[1] The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are two important forms of Classical poetry. The Alcaic stanza consists of two Alcaic hendecasyllables, followed by an Alcaic enneasyllable and an Alcaic decasyllable.
^Cuddon, John Anthony (1998). A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Wiley. p. 18. ISBN 9780631202714.
The Alcaicstanza is a Greek lyrical meter, an Aeolic verse form traditionally believed to have been invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from Mytilene on...
single anceps. This meter typically appears as the first two lines of an Alcaicstanza. (For an English example, see §English, below.) (Latin: hendecasyllabus...
The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines. Originally composed in quantitative verse and unrhymed, since the Middle...
Hephaestion but it is unclear whether this was an entire stanza or part of a three- or four-line stanza. Fragment 103 preserves 10 incipits of poems by Sappho...
from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaicstanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars...
most basic form of Aeolic line), hendecasyllabic verse, Sapphic stanza, and Alcaicstanza (the latter two are respectively named for Sappho and Alcaeus)...
analysis can also, for example, understand the third line of the Alcaicstanza—and other stanza lines as in Sappho frr. 96, 98, 99—as Aeolic in nature, and...
(1965). (= Nisbet & Hubbard's 2nd archilochian) The first archilochian stanza consists of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic hemiepes: – u u...
Greek lyrical forms, identifying with Alcaeus of Mytilene, composing Alcaicstanzas, and also with Archilochus, composing poetic invectives in the Iambus...
among others, Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene, composing Sapphic and Alcaicstanzas, and with Archilochus, composing poetic invectives in the Iambus tradition...
number of ways. Glyconic Pherecratean Asclepiad Sapphic stanza, so called for Sappho Alcaicstanza, so called for Alcaeus Adonean or Adonic The following...
of each stanza, trochaic rhythms predominate, mixed with the hagesichorean, which gets its name from this poem. Lines 9 to 12 of each stanza are trochaic...
Syllabic A stanza is a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem. (cf. verse in music.) Alcaic: a 4-line stanza invented by...
leading poets employed them. Among these were the Sapphic, the Elegiac, the Alcaic, and the Asclepiadean strophe, all of them prominent in Greek and Latin...
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