Archilochian

Archilochian

Archilochian is a term in poetry applied to a sort of verse invented by Archilochus. An Archilochian verse consists of seven feet: four dactyls - or alternatively spondees -, followed by three trochees. For instance,

:"Solvitur acris hyems grata vice veris et Favoni." from Horace's Odes 1.4.

As in that ode, Archilochian verses were usually mixed with verses in a form of iambic hexameter less one syllable.

These verses are also called dactylic, because they typically begin with dactyls.

References

*1728 [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&entity=HistSciTech000900240173&isize=L]


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