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Stanzas.
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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.
The Alcaic stanza as used by Sappho and Alcaeus has the scheme ( where “–” is a longum, “u” a breve, and “×” an anceps):
One stanza consists of four lines; the first two lines are divided into two parts by a caesura after the fifth syllable. The metrical pattern of an Alcaic stanza would look like this:
(An “–” denotes a long syllable, “u” a short one, and “:” is the caesura.)
Horace frequently used the Alcaic stanza in his Odes, as can be seen from this example :
An English translation, which suggests the metre, is :