-
extremely po****r
since the 16th century)
Alcaics were used very rarely. Even in
translation Horace's
Alcaic stanzas were
usually turned into different...
-
single anceps. This
meter typically appears as the
first two
lines of an
Alcaic stanza. (For an
English example, see §English, below.) (Latin: hendecasyllabus...
- and
Hubbard (1970)
observe certain developments in the
style of Horace's
Alcaics across the four books.
These include, for example: a
gradual decrease in...
-
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...
- 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...
- 20th century,
partly in hexameter, and
partly in
other forms, such as the
Alcaic, the Asclepiadic, and the
Sapphic stanza.
Early 19th-century poet Dániel...
-
Choliamb Aeolic verse Choriamb Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry)
Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac...
- 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...
-
basic form of
Aeolic line),
hendecasyllabic verse,
Sapphic stanza, and
Alcaic stanza (the
latter two are
respectively named for
Sappho and Alcaeus). In...
