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Definition of alcaic in English: alcaicadjectivealˈkeɪɪkælˈkeɪɪk Prosody Using or denoting a verse metre occurring in four-line stanzas. 阿尔凯奥斯的 Example sentencesExamples - Auden's elegy for Sigmund Freud follows the alcaic syllable-count (though not its rhythm).
- It was monodic, and was composed in a variety of lyric metres in two or four-line stanzas, including the alcaic stanza, named after him.
- The paper will also attend to some critical implications of the meter's movement, and will end by pointing to successors of Auden - poets like John Hollander and Marilyn Hacker - who followed his example and took up the alcaic meter in their own verses.
- He turned it down, but the first six odes of Book III, very serious - minded and written in alcaic metre, are closely aligned with Augustus’ policies.
- There aren't many intact alcaic stanzas, but it is an important one [(Horace used in in his Odes [e.g.,])] and you should be familiar with it.
plural nounalˈkeɪɪkælˈkeɪɪk alcaicsProsody Alcaic verse. 阿尔凯奥斯四行诗 Example sentencesExamples - He employed the classical elegiacs and alcaics with ease, and was equally at home with trochaic and iambic lines.
- The first six odes of Book 3 are sometimes referred to as the Roman Odes, written in stately alcaics in elevated style on patriotic themes.
- Later, he was taught to turn English verse into alcaics and sapphics in Horatian style, as well as imitating Virgil, Ovid and the Greek tragedians.
- According to the Speccie he knows the difference ‘between a tribrach and a molossus, a sapphic and an alcaic’.
- In translating the odes, for example, I kept to their syllabic count and tried to engender rhythms akin to but not identical with those engendered by alcaics in German.
OriginMid 17th century: via late Latin from Greek alkaikos, from Alkaios (see Alcaeus). Rhymesalgebraic, Aramaic, archaic, choleraic, Cyrenaic, deltaic, formulaic, Hebraic, Judaic, Mishnaic, Mithraic, mosaic, Pharisaic, prosaic, Ptolemaic, Romaic, spondaic, stanzaic, trochaic Definition of alcaic in US English: alcaicadjectiveælˈkeɪɪkalˈkāik Prosody A four-line verse stanza in the meter invented by the Greek poet Alcaeus, and later used in a slightly altered form by the Roman poet Horace. Example sentencesExamples - There aren't many intact alcaic stanzas, but it is an important one [(Horace used in in his Odes [e.g.,])] and you should be familiar with it.
- The paper will also attend to some critical implications of the meter's movement, and will end by pointing to successors of Auden - poets like John Hollander and Marilyn Hacker - who followed his example and took up the alcaic meter in their own verses.
- It was monodic, and was composed in a variety of lyric metres in two or four-line stanzas, including the alcaic stanza, named after him.
- Auden's elegy for Sigmund Freud follows the alcaic syllable-count (though not its rhythm).
- He turned it down, but the first six odes of Book III, very serious - minded and written in alcaic metre, are closely aligned with Augustus’ policies.
plural nounælˈkeɪɪkalˈkāik alcaicsProsody Alcaic verse. 阿尔凯奥斯四行诗 Example sentencesExamples - The first six odes of Book 3 are sometimes referred to as the Roman Odes, written in stately alcaics in elevated style on patriotic themes.
- He employed the classical elegiacs and alcaics with ease, and was equally at home with trochaic and iambic lines.
- Later, he was taught to turn English verse into alcaics and sapphics in Horatian style, as well as imitating Virgil, Ovid and the Greek tragedians.
- In translating the odes, for example, I kept to their syllabic count and tried to engender rhythms akin to but not identical with those engendered by alcaics in German.
- According to the Speccie he knows the difference ‘between a tribrach and a molossus, a sapphic and an alcaic’.
OriginMid 17th century: via late Latin from Greek alkaikos, from Alkaios (see Alcaeus). |