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What (who) is Greater ‹Lesser› Alcaic - definition

Alcaics; Alcaick; Alcaic; Alcaic verse; Alcaic Stanza; Alcara verse; The Alcaic stanza; Alcaicum

Alcaic         
·adj Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 ·b.c.
II. Alcaic ·noun 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.
alcaics         
alcaic verse.
Alcaic stanza         
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.

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Alcaic stanza

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.