Glyconic verse
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Glyconic (from Glycon, a Greek lyric poet) is a form of meter in classical Greek and Latin poetry. The glyconic line is the most basic and most commonly used form of Aeolic verse, and it is often combined with others.
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It sits within the topics Ancient Greek poetry, Poetic rhythm and Types of verses.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- meter
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- quantitative metrical pattern
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Related metres
- Origin of the glyconic
- Greek examples
- Anacreon
- Euripides
- Latin examples
- Catullus
- Horace
- Seneca
- Further reading
- References
Glyconic (from Glycon, a Greek lyric poet) is a form of meter in classical Greek and Latin poetry. The glyconic line is the most basic and most commonly used form of Aeolic verse, and it is often combined with others.
The basic shape (often abbreviated as gl) is as follows: x x – u u – u – Here "x" indicates an anceps, "–" a longum, and "u" a brevis. "x x" is known as the Aeolic base, which can be a spondeus "– –", a trochee "– u", or an iamb "u –". The middle foot "– u u –" is a choriambus, as a so-called choriambic nucleus is a defining element of Aeolic verse. As in all classical verse forms, the phenomenon of brevis in longo is observed, so although the last syllable can actually be short or long, it always "counts" as long.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Glyconic verse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.