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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 ...
A dactyl (/ ˈ d æ k t ɪ l /; Greek: δάκτυλος, dáktylos, “finger”) is a foot in poetic meter. [1] In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight.
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):
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.
It is found in both Greek and Latin. The metre is usually analysed in terms of the ionicus a maiore (– – uu). [21] The surviving examples have several forms, but the most common is one which has an ionic rhythm in the first half, and a trochaic rhythm in the second: [25] ter corripuī terribilem manū bipennem (Petronius)
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 –
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Normally in Greek and Latin, in those metres where a metron is defined as having two long elements, there are no more than four metra in any line of poetry. There are rare exceptions such as Callimachus fragment 399 (trochaic pentameter catalectic) and fragment 229 (a choriambic pentameter).