Chapter 20
IV. Metre
- Accelerated Spondee, 343 n.
- Accentual Dactyl, 356.
- — Iambi, 328.
- Anaclasis, 356.
- Anacrusis, 334 n., 342, etc.
- Anapæsis used by chorus, 337.
- — in recitative, 74.
- Anapæst, ⏑⏑–, 290 n., 331, 338, etc.
- Anapæstic metre, 337-8.
- — system, 337.
- Antistrophe, 78, 344 ff.
- Antithetic-mesodic periods, 361-2.
- Antithetic periods, 360.
- Asclepiad, greater, 8.
- Bacchiac, – –⏑, 355.
- Blank verse, 328.
- Cæsura, 332-3, 336.
- Catalectic verse, 337, 339;
- catalectic foot, 334.
- — — in anapæstic systems, 338.
- Catalexis, 335, 337, 353-4, 359.
- Choree, 352-3.
- Choriambics, –⏑⏑–, 357.
- Cola, three types of, 351.
- Colon, 343 ff.
- — definition of, 347.
- Counter-turn, 344.
- Cretic, –⏑–, 354.
- — Final, 290 n., 333-4.
- — in English, 355.
- Cyclic Dactyls, 341.
- Dactyl, –⏑⏑, 331, etc., 340.
- Dactylic dipody, 356.
- — hexameter, 339.
- Dactyls, cyclic, 341.
- Definition of a colon, 347.
- — — ictus, 347-8.
- — — metre, 327.
- — — poetry, 327.
- — — rhythm, 327.
- Diæresis, 336-7.
- Dialogue-metre, 74, 334 ff., 353.
- Dipody, 338, 351-2.
- Dochmiacs, 355, 358.
- Dochmius, 358.
- Elision, 329, etc., 344 n.
- Emotional significance of metre, 353 ff.
- Episodic trochaics, 338, 353.
- Epode, 78, 345.
- Equal cola, 351.
- Final Cretic, 290 n., 333-4.
- Foot-ictus, 342.
- Greater asclepiad, 8.
- Hexameter, Dactylic, 339.
- Hexapody, 351-2.
- Hiatus, 329-30.
- Homeric metre, 339.
- Iambic metre, 4, 327, 330 ff.
- — senarius, 340.
- Iambus, ⏑–, 74, 327 ff., 330, etc.
- Ictus, 342, 347.
- — definition of, 347.
- Insetting, 342.
- Ionic, – –⏑⏑, 356.
- Ionicus a maiore, 356.
- — — minore, ⏑⏑– –, 356.
- Irrational syllables, 343 n., 347, 351, 362.
- Licences, 331, 335.
- Logaoedic systems, 341.
- Long syllables, 328.
- Lyrics, v, vi, 2, 338 ff.
- Mesode, 344, 361.
- Mesodic periods, 361-2.
- Metre, vi, 327 ff.
- — definition of, 327.
- — in comedy, 334.
- — of S. Philoctetes, 181;
- of E. Orestes, 315, 334.
- Molossus, – – –, 354.
- Music, Greek, 339, etc.
- Octonarius, 335.
- — trochaic, 339.
- Palinodic-antithetic periods, 361.
- — — -mesodic periods, 361-2.
- Palinodic-mesodic periods, 361-2.
- — periods, 360.
- Parœmiacs, 338 and n.
- Pentapody, 351.
- Period, 343, 359 ff.
- Pitch-accent, 327 n.
- Poetry, definition of, 327.
- Postlude, 344, 362.
- Prelude, 342, 344, 362.
- Prodelision, 329.
- Quantity, 327 ff.
- Quasi-anapæsts, 354.
- Quasi-trochees, 341.
- Quinquepartite cola, 351.
- Recitative, 337.
- Resolved feet, 330, 334, 336, 342 n., 353, 355, 358.
- Rhythm, p. vi, 327 ff.
- — definition of, 327.
- — in Philoctetes, 181.
- Rules of Quantity, 328-9.
- Scansion, 327 ff.;
- of lyrics, v, vi, 338 ff.
- Scheme of iambic verse, 334.
- — — trochaic tetrameters, 337.
- Senarius, iambic, 340.
- Sentence, 343, etc.
- Spondaic words lacking in English, 354.
- Spondee, – –, 181, 330, etc., 341, 353.
- Stichic period, 359-60.
- — -mesodic period, 361.
- Stress-accent, 327, 342, 347.
- “Striking-up,” 342 n.
- Strophe, 78, 344 ff.
- Synapheia, 330.
- Syncopated rhythm, 341.
- Synizesis, 332.
- Tetrameter, Trochaic, 334 ff.
- Tetrapody, 337, 351-2.
- Tribrach, ⏑⏑⏑, 181, 331, 335.
- Tripody, 351-2.
- Trochaic tetrameter, 4, 334 ff.
- — octonarius, 339.
- Trochee, –⏑, 334 ff., 352.
- Turn, 344.
- Types of cola, 351.
- — — period, 359 ff.
- Unequal cola, 351.
- Verse in lyrics, 346.
- Virgilian metre, 339.
- Voice-stress, 328.
- Word-ictus, 348.