alcaic

• verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines
• Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c
• A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls

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