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Alcaic

noun
1.
Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus.  Synonym: Alcaic verse.



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"Alcaic" Quotes from Famous Books



... leaving the latter school, he had the reputation among his fellow-students of being an excellent Hellenist, according to the report of Schwab, his biographer. It was while there that Hoelderlin as a boy of seventeen first made use of the Alcaic measure in which he subsequently wrote so many of ...
— Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry • Wilhelm Alfred Braun


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