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Definitions of alcaic in various dictionaries:
noun - verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines
Verse composed in strophes of four tetrametric lines.
noun - a type of verse form
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| Written in a particular four-line stanza form |
| -- strophe, a verse form much used by Horace |
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| Jan 30 2012 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
| Dec 4 2006 The Times - Concise |
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| verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines reputedly invented by Alcaeus |
| pertaining to Alcaeus, a Greek lyric poet of around 600BC especially, of a verse meter in a four-line stanza which he supposedly invented |
| alcaic verses |
| Using or denoting a verse metre occurring in four-line stanzas. |
| Alcaic verse. |
| Alcaic description |
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| The Alcaic stanza is a Greek lyrical meter, an Aeolic verse form traditionally believed to have been invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC. The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are two important forms of Classical poetry. The Alcaic stanza consists of two Alcaic hendecasyllables, followed by an Alcaic enneasyllable and an Alcaic decasyllable. |