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.
Chapter VI
Lines Quoted in
Æschylus:
Agam., 2, 160 sqq., 975 sqq., 988 sqq., 1530 sqq.
Eumen., 788 sq.
Persæ, 81 sq., 126 sq.
Prom. V., 12, 15, 115, 415, 420.
Suppl., 418 sqq., 582 sqq., 656.
Euripides:
Alcestis, 29, 32, 34, 37, 179.
Androma., 241, 260, 804.
Bacchæ, 12, 64 sqq., 703.
Cyclops, 361 sqq.
Hecuba, 629 sqq.;
Herc. Fur., 76, 857.
Ion, 125-7, 313, 548;
I. Aul., 320, 882;
I. T., 123-5, 1232.
Medea, 1, 635;
Orest., 310, 367, 502, 740, 756, 797, 872, 892, 894.
Phœn., 114 sqq., 590 sq., 609, 612;
Troades, 710, 738.
Sophocles:
Ajax, 646, 652;
Antigone, 95, 582 sqq., 1329 sq.
Electra, 147-9;
Œ. Col., 1047-8, 1055, 1082.
Œ. Tyr., 1, 29, 151, 483-4, 738, 1313.
Philoct., 895 sqq., 1095 sqq., 1222 sqq., 1402.