iambic trimeter
31Catullus 4 — is a poem by the ancient Roman writer Catullus. The poem concerns the retirement of a well traveled ship; Catullus draws a strong analogy with human aging, rendering the boat as a person that flies and speaks, with palms (the oars) and purpose.… …
32Paul the Silentiary — Paul the Silentiary, also known as Paulus Silentiarius (d. Constantinople, 575 580 AD) was an officer in the imperial household of the Byzantine emperor Justinian, responsible for the silence (hence his name Silentiarius ) in the imperial… …
33Sisyphus fragment — The Sisyphus fragment is an 42 line excerpt in iambic trimeter from an ancient Greek satyr play written either by Euripides or Critias. (In Diels Kranz, it is 88 B 25, attributed to Critias.) The words are spoken by Sisyphus, a character in the… …
34List of classical meters — The following meters were used in Greek poetry and borrowed into Latin poetry in the classical period:Major Forms*Dactylic hexameter *Elegiac couplet, consisting of a line of dactylic hexameter and one of dactylic pentameter *Iambic… …
35Schneewittchen (opera) — Schneewittchen is an opera by Heinz Holliger. He wrote the libretto based on a poetic text by Robert Walser in iambic trimeter. The opera premiered on Date|1998 10 17 at the Zurich Opera House which had commssioned the work. The work is a… …
36Ezekiel the Tragedian — Ezekiel the Tragedian, also known as Ezekiel the Poet, was a Jewish dramatist who wrote in Alexandria during the second Century B.C.E. His work survives only in fragments found in the writings of Eusebius, Clement of Alexandria, and Pseudo… …
37meter — meter1 /mee teuhr/, n. the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a… …
38Apollodorus of Athens — ▪ Greek scholar died after 120 BC Greek scholar of wide interests who is best known for his Chronika (Chronicle) of Greek history. Apollodorus was a colleague of the Homeric scholar Aristarchus Of Samothrace (both served as librarians of… …
39scazon — noun a) A limping satiric meter in classical verse. b) A iambic trimeter ending with a trochee or spondee …
40iambus — [ʌɪ ambəs] noun (plural iambuses or iambi bʌɪ) Prosody a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. Origin C16: L., from Gk iambos iambus, lampoon , from iaptein attack verbally… …
