গ্রিক ও ল্যাটিন 4 tetrametric লাইনের strophes গঠিত কবিতা ব্যবহৃত মিটার শ্লোক; খ্যাতি বা অখ্যাতি Alcaeus দ্বারা আবিষ্কৃত

alcaics's Usage Examples:

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

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

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.

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

alcaics's Meaning':

verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus