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Alcaic
Alcaic Al*ca"ic, a. [L. Alca["i]cus, Gr. ?.]
Pertaining to Alc[ae]us, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000
b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so called from Alc[ae]us. One
variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an
iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.
Meaning of Alcaic from wikipedia
- The
Alcaic stanza is a Gr****
lyrical meter, an
Aeolic verse form
traditionally believed to have been
invented by Alcaeus, a
lyric poet from
Mytilene on...
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single anceps. This
meter typically appears as the
first two
lines of an
Alcaic stanza. (For an
English example, see §English, below.) (Latin: hendecasyllabus...
- odes") are all in
Alcaic. The
metre of most of the
poems can be
deduced from the
first three syllables of
their first line: x – ᴗ =
Alcaic – ᴗ – = Sapphic...
- poet from the Gr****
island of ****s who is
credited with
inventing the
Alcaic stanza. He was
included in the
canonical list of nine
lyric poets by the...
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adapt into
Latin forms. His Odes
featured more
complex measures,
including alcaics and sapphics,
which were
sometimes a
difficult fit for
Latin structure...
- v t e
Poetic forms Stanzas Alcaic stanza Ballad stanza Biolet Burns stanza Chaubola Cinquain Couplet Ghazal Quatorzain Quatrain Quintain Rhyme royal Sapphic...
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Choliamb Aeolic verse Choriamb Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry)
Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac...
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Choliamb Aeolic verse Choriamb Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry)
Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac...
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leading poets emplo**** them.
Among these were the Sapphic, the Elegiac, the
Alcaic, and the
Asclepiadean strophe, all of them
prominent in Gr**** and Latin...
- death. The
contemporary Italian poet Giosuè
Carducci composed a poem in
Alcaic stanzas in his
memory in 1879 (later in his Odi Barbare), in
which he described...
