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Choliambic verse (also known as "limping iambs" or "scazons" is a form of meter in poetry. It is found in both Greek and Latin poetry in the classical period. Choliambic verse is sometimes called scazon, or "lame iambic", because it brings the reader down on the wrong "foot" by reversing the stresses of the last few beats. It was originally pioneered by the Greek lyric poet Hipponax, who wrote "lame trochaics" as well as "lame iambics"; the Latin poet Catullus provides a further .
The basic structure is much like iambic trimeter, except that the last cretic is made heavy by the insertion of a longum instead of a brevis. Also, the third anceps of the iambic trimeter line must be short in limping iambs. In other words, the line scans as follows (where - is a longum, u is a brevis, and x is an anceps):
As in all classical verse forms, the phenomenon of brevis in longo is observed, so the last syllable can actually be short or long.
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The basic structure is much like iambic trimeter, except that the last cretic is made heavy by the insertion of a longum instead of a brevis. Also, the third anceps of the iambic trimeter line must be short in limping iambs. In other words, the line scans as follows (where - is a longum, u is a brevis, and x is an anceps):
- x - u - | x - u - | u - - -
As in all classical verse forms, the phenomenon of brevis in longo is observed, so the last syllable can actually be short or long.
References
- Richmond Lattimore, "Greek Lyrics" 1949
- Daniel H. Garrison (editor). The Student's Catullus. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, 2004.
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Meter (British English spelling: metre) describes the linguistic sound patterns of a verse.Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page.
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Latin literature, the body of written works in the Latin language, remains an enduring legacy of the culture of ancient Rome. The Romans produced many works of poetry, comedy, tragedy, satire, history, and rhetoric, drawing heavily on the traditions of other cultures and
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Classical antiquity (also the classical era or classical period) is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
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Lyric poetry refers to either poetry that has the form and musical quality of a song, or a usually short poem that expresses personal feelings, which may or may not be set to music.
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Hipponax of Ephesus was an Ancient Greek iambic poet.
Expelled from Ephesus in 540 BC by the tyrant Athenagoras, he took refuge in Clazomenae, where he spent the rest of his life in poverty.
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Expelled from Ephesus in 540 BC by the tyrant Athenagoras, he took refuge in Clazomenae, where he spent the rest of his life in poverty.
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Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC) was a Roman poet of the 1st century BC. His work remains widely studied, and continues to influence poetry and other art.
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Iambic trimeter is an ancient meter consisting of three iambic metra (each consisting of two iambi in the spoken verses of Greek tragedy and comedy).
In English accentual-syllabic verse it is a meter consisting of three iambs per line.
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In English accentual-syllabic verse it is a meter consisting of three iambs per line.
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Cretic or amphimacer feet are a unit of prosody that contain three syllables, metrically long, short, long. In Greek poetry, the amphimacer was usually a form of paeon or aeolic verse. However, any line mixing iambs and trochees could employ a cretic foot as a transition.
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In linguistics, syllable weight is the concept that syllables pattern together according to the number and/or duration of segments in the rime. In classical poetry, both Greek and Latin, distinctions of syllable weight were fundamental to the meter of the line.
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In linguistics, syllable weight is the concept that syllables pattern together according to the number and/or duration of segments in the rime. In classical poetry, both Greek and Latin, distinctions of syllable weight were fundamental to the meter of the line.
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In Greek and Latin meter, an anceps syllable is a syllable in a metrical line which can be either short or long. An anceps syllable may be called "free" or "irrational" depending on the type of meter being discussed.
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In Greek and Latin meter, a short syllable at the end of a line can be counted as long; this phenomenon is known as brevis in longo.
The term comes from Latin, and means "a short [syllable] in place of a long [syllable].
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The term comes from Latin, and means "a short [syllable] in place of a long [syllable].
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