Archilochian
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Archilochian is a term in poetry, applied to a sort of verse, whereof Archilochus was the inventor. These consist of seven feet, the first four being ordinarily dactyls, though sometimes spondees, and the three last trochees. For instance,
- Solvitur acris Hyems grata vice Veris et Favoni. Horace.
It is usually a mix of iambic verses of six feet, abating a syllable, with archilochian verses, as Horace himself has done in the ode cited above.
These verses are also called dactylic, on account of the dactyls at the beginning.
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