గ్రీకు మరియు లాటిన్ కవిత్వంలో ఉపయోగించిన మీటర్లో కవిత్వం 4 టెట్రోమాట్రిక్ పంక్తుల పరంపరను కలిగి ఉంటుంది; రిజర్వు exall ద్వారా కనుగొనబడింది,

alcaic's Usage Examples:

A copy of Latin alcaics from his pen was printed in the Academiæ Oxoniensis Comitia Philologica.

Another form of hendecasyllabic verse is the “Alcaic” (Latin: hendecasyllabus alcaicus; used in the Alcaic stanza), which has the pattern: ⏓ – ⏑ – ⏓ – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ –.

His Odes featured more complex measures, including alcaics and sapphics, which were sometimes a difficult fit for Latin structure.

commemorated by Samuel Johnson, a personal friend and a patient, with the Latin alcaic ode, Ad Thomam Laurence, medicum doctissimum, cum filium peregre agentem.

His death was lamented in some elegant Latin alcaics by his friend, G.

before that event is given by the appearance of a translation into Latin alcaics which was published by his colleague Allen Beville Ramsay in Ros Rosarum.

use of a metre which might be scanned as, and is clearly modelled upon, alcaics, but is, in practice, composed of iambic feet.