List of classical meters

List 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 trimeter

Aeolics

*Hendecasyllabic
*Sapphic stanza
*Alcaic stanza
*Glyconic

Lyric Meters and Minor Forms

*Choliambic, also known as limping iambs or scazons
*Dochmiac
*Priapean
*Galliambic
*Asclepiadean
*Archilochean
*Pythiambic
*Alcmanic stanza
*Hipponactean


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