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Definition of Archilochian

Archilochian
Archilochian Ar`chi*lo"chi*an, a. [L. Archilochius.] Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.

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- Archilochian or archilochean is a term used to describe several metres of Ancient Gr**** and Latin poetry. The name is derived from Archilochus, whose poetry...
- full pentameter, the elegiac couplet takes the form known as the First Archilochian, named after the Gr**** poet Archilochus. An example is found in the fourth...
- ' This metre is also called the "4th Archilochian". The first of these lines is known as a "greater Archilochian". (a trochaic dimeter catalectic, followed...
- first line consists of a dactylic hexameter or an iambic trimeter. (See Archilochian.) It can also be used (as in Horace's Epodes), to refer to poems written...
- prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry) Metres of...
- ithyphallic colon (– ᴗ – ᴗ – x). For examples of such epodic strophes see: Archilochian Alcmanian These metres were imitated in Latin in Horace's Epodes. Aeolic...
- prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry) Metres of...
- homely way that "he'd sooner live in ****." (B) Fourteener (poetry) Archilochian Harmon, William, and Hugh Holman. A Handbook to Literature. Eleventh...
- prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry) Metres of...
- prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry) Metres of...