ALCAICS

Meaning of ALCAICS in English

alcaic verse.

→ alcaic

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ALCAIC — /al kay"ik/ , adj. 1. pertaining to Alcaeus or to certain meters or a form of strophe or stanza used …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ALCAIC PROSODY — alcaic Prosody [ al'keɪɪk ] ■ adjective written in or denoting a verse metre occurring in four-line stanzas. ■ noun …
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ALCAIC — classical Greek poetic stanza composed of four lines of varied metrical feet, with five long syllables in the first two …
Britannica English vocabulary
VERSE — n. 25B6; noun Elizabethan verse : POETRY, versification; poems, lyrics; poetic/literary poesy. See lists. a verse he'd composed to mark …
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