Shine as fire of sunset on western waters
Saw the hair unbound and the feet unsandalled
Yet with lips shut close and with eyes of iron Shed not dew, nor shook nor unclosed a feather, “ Sapphics” by the 19th-century English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne shows the Sapphic metre and stanza in English: All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids, It consisted of three quantitative lines that scannedįollowed by a shorter line, called an Adonic, - ˘ ˘. Because neither English nor German has fixed rules of quantity, the poets were forced to revise the formal schemes of the Classical paradigms in accordance with the phonetic structure of their own language.Ī metrical paradigm much used by both Greek and Latin poets was the so-called Sapphic stanza. Whereas it is not possible here to trace the history of Classical metres in European poetry, it is instructive to analyze some attempts to make English and German syllables move to Greek and Latin music. Poets themselves adapted the metres and stanzas of Classical poetry to their own languages. Confusion was compounded because both poets and theorists used the traditional terminology of Greek and Latin prosody to describe the elements of the already existing syllable-stress metres iambic, trochaic, dactylic, and anapestic originally named the strictly quantitative feet of Greek and Latin poetry. Renaissance theorists and critics initiated a confused and complicated argument that tried to explain European poetry by the rules of Classical prosody and to draft laws of quantity by which European verse might move in the hexameters of the ancient Roman poets Virgil or Horace. Quantitative metres determine the prosody of Greek and Latin verse. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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