Alcaic

[æl'keiik]

解释:

(noun.) verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus.

凯西整理--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c.

(n.) 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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解释:

adj. of or pertaining to the Greek lyrical poet Alc鎢s (c. 600 B.C.) or to the kind of verse invented by him. The most common form consists of an anacrusis a trochee a spondee and two dactyls; a second of a catalectic iambic pentameter the third foot always being a spondee; a third of two dactyls followed by two trochees. The most common arrangement was two lines of (1) followed by one of (2) and one of (3). Cf. Tennyson's 'O mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies.'

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