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Choliambic verse (Ancient Gr****: χωλίαμβος), also
known as
limping iambs or
scazons or
halting iambic, is a form of
meter in poetry. It is
found in both Gr****...
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poems in
hendecasyllables and 7
poems in
either elegiac couplets or
scazons. The
scazon poems are
arranged two in the 3rd group, two in the 4th, and two...
- Herodas. Persius's
satires are
composed in hexameters,
except for the
scazons of the
short prologue above referred to. The
first satire censures the...
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Hipponax (about 540 BCE). The
invention of the
satyric iambic verse called Scazon is
ascribed to him as well as to Hipponax. Some
fragments of
Ananius are...
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using as his
favourite metres the
Phalaecian hendecasyllable,
choliambs (
scazons), and
elegiac couplets.
Several people are
addressed or
mentioned in more...
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rhythmical prose;
Theocritus uses the
hexameter and Doric,
Herodas the
scazon or "lame"
iambic (with a
dragging spondee at the end) and the old Ionic...
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catalectic (in
Latin also
known as
Iambic septenarius)
Choliambic (also
known as
Scazon), a
variation on the
Iambic trimeter These are not the only
stichic metres...
- name
choliambics means lame
iambics and
sometimes the
meter is
called scazons or limpers. ("Lame trochaics"
exist as well,
being a
trochaic tetrameter...
- poet's function." He was
considered the
inventor of a
peculiar metre, the
scazon ("halting iambic" as
Murray calls it) or choliamb,
which substitutes a spondee...
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three metres that she
wrote in: hendecasyllables,
iambic trimeters, and
scazons. It is
unclear why the poem
imitated Sulpicia, as she is
otherwise only...
