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The individual rhythmical patterns used in Greek and Latin poetry are also known as "metres" (US "meters"). Greek poetry developed first, starting as early as the 8th century BC with the epic poems of Homer and didactic poems of Hesiod, which were composed in the dactylic hexameter. A variety of other metres were used for lyric poetry and for ...
Dochmiac (Ancient Greek: δοχμιακός, from δόχμιος 'across, aslant, oblique', [1] or 'pertaining to a δοχμή or hand's-breath' [2]) is a poetic meter that is characteristically used in Greek tragedy, expressing extreme agitation or distress.
Dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter and the meter of epic) is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The scheme of the hexameter is usually as follows (writing – for a long syllable, u for a short, and u u for a position that may be a long or two shorts):
In ancient Greek, the word μέτρον had a variety of meanings. The basic meaning is the "measure, size, length" of something. [7] Another meaning is "metre" or "verse", for example λὀγους εἰς μέτρα τιθέντες (logous eis métra tithéntes) "putting words into verse" (); a μετρικός is an expert in metre.
Many of the additional meters found in Sappho and Alcaeus are similar to the ones discussed above, and similarly analyzable. For example, Sappho frr. 130 – 131 (and the final lines of fr. 94's stanzas) are composed in a shortened version (gl d) of the meter used in Book II of her poetry. However, the surviving poetry also abounds in fragments ...
Greek poetry meters are based on patterns of long and short syllables (in contrast to English verse, which is determined by stress), and lyric poetry is characterized by a great variety of metrical forms. [4] Apart from the shift between long and short syllables, stress must be considered when reading Greek poetry.
Glyconic (from Glycon, a Greek lyric poet) is a form of meter in classical Greek and Latin poetry. The glyconic line is the most basic and most commonly used form of Aeolic verse, and it is often combined with others. The basic shape (often abbreviated as gl) is as follows: x x – u u – u –
In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order.