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662:'s "Soldier's Wife": "Wild-visaged Wanderer, ah, for thy heavy chance!"), or to poems (e.g. in German) that strictly imitate Horace's meters.
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The term "Alcmanian" is sometimes applied to modern
English dactylic tetrameters (e.g.
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Nisbet, R. G. M. & Hubbard, M. (1970).'A Commentary on
Horaces Odes Book 1
575: and the sky threatens with cloudy rainshowers,
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569: and the former strength returned to my eyes.
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The final syllable of each line in the above fragment counts as short and
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in the third line, but the lines end with dactyls (not spondees).
769:., New Series, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Oct., 2005), pp. 525–528; p. 525.
713:
Allen and
Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges
441:'What do you want for yourself, woman worthy of black elephants?
444: Why (do you send) me gifts and
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292:
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i.e. with an insatiable sexual appetite: Lowrie, M. (2005).
566:'Then as the night was shaken off, the darkness became clear
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as the second verse of the
Alcmanian strophe. For example,
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The Sun is hidden and, the stars not yet coming to the sky,
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Just as when clouds gather with a strong north-west wind
649: with mournful strains...'
340:
This length is scanned like the first four feet of the
763:: A Commentary on Horace's "Epodes" by L. C. Watson
711:"Alcmanian strophe": J. B. Greenough et al (1903):
683:A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
680:
426:Quid tibi vis, mulier nigris dignissima barris?
471:Later Latin poets use the dactylic tetrameter
521:Sol latet ac nondum caelo venientibus astris,
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601:bursts out and gleaming with sudden light
491:Tunc me discussa liquerunt nocte tenebrae
782:, vol. 1, Loeb Classical Library, p. 91.
551:Emicat et subito vibratus lumine Phoebus
536:Hanc si Threicio Boreas emissus ab antro
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611:uses couplets of a dactylic tetrameter
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374:The Alcmanian (or Alcmanic) strophe
514:Nimbosisque polus stetit imbribus,
397:. It is a couplet consisting of a
333:Begin the lovely words, add beauty
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544:Verberet et clausum reseret diem,
452:It is the only metre in Horace's
301:ἄρχ᾽ ἐρατῶν ϝεπέων, ἐπὶ δ᾽ ἵμερον
16:Greek and Latin poetic verse form
499:Luminibusque prior rediit vigor.
434:Munera quid mihi quidve tabellas
529:Desuper in terram nox funditur;
778:H. G. Evelyn-White (transl.),
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336:And lovely dance to our hymn.'
308:ὕμνωι καὶ χαρίεντα τίθη χορόν.
294:Μῶσ᾽ ἄγε Καλλιόπα θύγατερ Διὸς
268:Ancient metricians called the
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679:Cuddon, John Anthony (1998).
631:Te quoque Dryadiam materteram
559:Mirantes oculos radiis ferit.
264:Dactylic tetrameter in Alcman
646:'You also, Dryadia my aunt,
381:composed some poems in the
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456:not to contain any iambic
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276:because of its use by the
482:Consolation of Philosophy
344:(giving rise to the name
389:. It is also called the
62:Latin rhythmic hexameter
730:Horace: Odes and Epodes
318:| – uu – uu – uu – uu |
315:| – uu – uu – uu – uu |
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77:Metres of Roman comedy
23:Greek and Latin metre
804:Ancient Greek poetry
767:The Classical Review
588:, released from his
403:dactylic tetrameter
346:dactylic tetrameter
284:, as in fragment 27
82:Trochaic septenarius
747:. (Oxford), p. xiv.
639:flebilibus modulis.
330:, daughter of Zeus,
270:dactylic tetrameter
250:dactylic tetrameter
414:I.7 and I.28, and
399:dactylic hexameter
355:substitutes for a
342:dactylic hexameter
187:Resolution (meter)
157:Anaclasis (poetry)
112:Asclepiad (poetry)
72:Saturnian (poetry)
42:Dactylic hexameter
687:. Wiley. p.
383:Alcmanian strophe
370:is not observed.
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192:Brevis brevians
172:Brevis in longo
167:Metron (poetry)
87:Hendecasyllable
67:Iambic trimeter
52:Alcmanian verse
47:Elegiac couplet
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258:Latin poetry
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197:Porson's Law
132:Anacreontics
97:Aeolic verse
57:Archilochian
51:
584:But if the
127:Ionic metre
793:Categories
761:The Epodes
666:References
622:Parentalia
586:North Wind
759:"Review:
207:Catalexis
152:Lekythion
780:Ausonius
617:hemiepes
613:a priore
609:Ausonius
590:Thracian
477:Boethius
473:a priore
348:a priore
328:Calliope
274:Alcmanic
147:Dochmiac
107:Glyconic
102:Choriamb
92:Choliamb
599:Phoebus
485:I.m.3:
393:or the
353:spondee
734:Horace
695:
462:Epodes
454:Epodes
379:Horace
357:dactyl
282:Alcman
177:Anceps
717:§617a
625:25:
592:cave,
458:metra
417:Epode
280:poet
254:Greek
693:ISBN
466:Odes
464:and
420:12:
411:Odes
272:the
256:and
619:in
385:or
286:PMG
252:in
795::
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