Younger leaves to the old give the releasing draught. Vipers move into play warmed by October’s nip, Turns earth’s heating up unknotting their poisoned ropes. June-struck cuckoos go off pitch when obese July Lodged in all is a set metronome: thus, in Mayīird-babes, still in the egg, click to each other “Hatch!”

Secretary to man’s plot to become divine. Theirs concretely in scent-colors and beasts, the sameĪge all over, pursue dumb horizontal lives. Springtime, Summer and Fall: days to behold a worldĪntecedent to our knowing, where flowers think LL LssL LssL sL, (L = long syllable, s = short syllable) the meter was used by Horace and others in Latin.Īn example in English is: In Due Season by WH Auden The common example is a spondee followed by 2 choriambs and an iamb. It is built around the choriamb (metric pattern of LssL). The aclepiad follows a particular metric pattern. An asclepiad is one of the Aeolic meters attributed to Asclepiades of Samos.It is said to have a contemplative or tranquil tone. The Aeolic Ode is the earliest of the Odes, the product of an ancient Greek culture but I’ve found little descriptive information other than some quantitative scansion showing a similarity to the Adonic line of the Sapphic strophe.The meter helped set a tranquil or contemplative tone.

The verse is quantitative, usually hendecasyllabic, employing 11 syllables and often includes an anceps, a quantitative metric foot that includes a syllable that could be interpreted either long or short. Four classic meters are known from that culture, the Alcaic Stanza, the Sapphic Stanza, Glyconics (the basic form of Aeolics) and Hendecasyllabic Verse. Aeolis was the west and northwestern region of Asia Minor which included most of the Greek city-states and the Island of Lesbos in the 8th to 6th centuries BC, the Greek Dark Ages. Aeolic Verse refers to meters commonly used in the lyrical works of Sappho and Alcaeus.

Hendecasyllabic scansion