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  2. Greek and Latin metre - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Dactylic hexameter - Wikipedia

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    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):

  4. Dochmiac - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Iambic tetrameter - Wikipedia

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    Iambic tetrameter is a poetic meter in ancient Greek and Latin poetry; as the name of a rhythm, iambic tetrameter consists of four metra, each metron being of the form | x – u – |, consisting of a spondee and an iamb, or two iambs. There usually is a break in the centre of the line, thus the whole line is:

  6. Dactyl (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Metrical foot - Wikipedia

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    In some kinds of metre, such as the Greek iambic trimeter, two feet are combined into a larger unit called a metron (pl. metra) or dipody. The foot is a purely metrical unit; there is no inherent relation to a word or phrase as a unit of meaning or syntax, though the interplay between these is an aspect of the poet's skill and artistry.

  8. Anaclasis (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    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)

  9. Metron (poetry) - Wikipedia

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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).