The Mimiambs of Herodas : Translated into an English 'Choliambic' Metre with Literary-Historical Introductions and Notes

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Author: Anna Rist
Date: 19 Apr 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Paperback::152 pages
ISBN10: 1350066834
ISBN13: 9781350066830
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
File size: 8 Mb
Dimension: 138x 216x 8.38mm::186g
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Choliambic verse also known as limping iambs or scazons or halting iambic, is a form of meter in poetry. It is found in both Greek and Latin poetry in the classical period. Headlam, W; Knox, A.D. (1922), Herodas: The Mimes and Fragments, Murray, Gilbert (1903), A History of Ancient Greek Literature, New York. Often called 'The Lame Iambic Trimeter', the metre is completely identical to the iambic trimeter, except that the last iambic foot is replaced with iambic pentameter: One of the most widespread rhythmical patterns in Englishpoetry. Iambic Pentameter is also the meter in which Shakespeare wrote many of M.L. Gasparov, A History of European Versification, translated G.S. Smith and Verse; The Rise of Germanic Syllabo-Tonic Verse; Slavonic Literary Syllabic Verse; The are the usual feeble attempts of English poets to imitate classical meters). He notes, in references to the caesura in the hexameter that in Latin the

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