Dactylic metre information

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poetry in both languages, the elegiac couplet being a dactylic hexameter line paired with a dactylic pentameter line. This form of verse was used for love...

Dactylic tetrameter is a metre in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of four dactylic feet. "Tetrameter" simply means four poetic feet. Each foot...

didactic poetry Elegiac couplet, consisting of a line of dactylic hexameter and one of dactylic pentameter, employed by Ovid for all his extant works except...

of feet, the iambic (where the ratio of arsis to thesis was 1:2), the dactylic (where it was 2:2) and the paeonic (where it was 3:2). Lines of verse are...

decline in physical health. The loose metre he apologises for can be interpreted as a reminiscence of the dactylic metre he and Coleridge had studied in Latin...

successful hexameter text in Lithuanian as yet. For dactylic hexameter poetry in Hungarian language, see Dactylic hexameter#In Hungarian. Albert Meyer (1893–1962...

Doric) verse, the one dactylic, the other epitrite. The dactylic metron is called the Prosodiac and is variable in the number of dactyls that proceed the final...

part of a larger work. Each couplet consists of a dactylic hexameter verse followed by a dactylic pentameter verse. The following is a graphic representation...

which consists of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic tetrameter. A dactylic hexameter, followed by an iambic dimeter + dactylic hemiepes: – u u –...

Alcmanian verse refers to the dactylic tetrameter in Greek and Latin poetry. Ancient metricians called the dactylic tetrameter the Alcmanic because of...

choriambic nucleus ( – u u – ), which is sometimes subject to: dactylic expansion (some number of dactyls preceding the choriamb, or "prolongation" of the pattern...

for children is written in four regularly rhymed six-lined stanzas in dactylic metre and tries to give a sense of La Fontaine's light heartedness. Its resulting...

distich"). He also wrote dactylic hexameters in conversational and epistolary style. Virgil, his contemporary, used dactylic hexameters for both light...

Some metres, such as the dactylic and anapaestic metres, have no anceps syllables, although they make liberal use of biceps. In Latin, in the metres of...

that in some cases a dactylic hexameter, if read with the words in the reverse order, becomes a sotadean. He says that these metres are appropriate for...

an innovative view on Horace's Epistles, a collection of letters in dactylic metre; although most previous scholars had regarded them as either faithful...

an Aeolic metre with dactylic expansion; the remaining nine are all metrically compatible – though they may not all have been the same metre – and can...

breviāns and synizesis are typical of anapaestic metres. Unlike in iambo-trochaic metres, the use of dactylic words such as omnibus (– u u) is allowed, and...

her surviving poetry: fragments 1-42. Sappho's most famous poem in this metre is Sappho 31, which begins as follows: Φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θέοισιν ἔμμεν...

missing publisher (link). Raven, D. S. (1965). Latin Metre. Faber and Faber. West, M. L. (1983), Greek Metre, Oxford, ISBN 0-19-814018-5{{citation}}: CS1 maint:...