alcaic
/alˈkeɪɪk
/Prosody
adjective
Using or denoting a verse metre occurring in four-line stanzas.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....
- 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 noun (alcaics)
Alcaic verse.He employed the classical elegiacs and alcaics with ease, and was equally at home with trochaic and iambic lines....
- 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.
- 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.
Origin
Mid 17th century: via late Latin from Greek alkaikos, from Alkaios (see Alcaeus).