Alcaic

Even the four specimens given in the posthumous edition of Clough's poems, two of them elegiac, one alcaic, one in hexameters, though professedly constructed on a quantitative basis, and, in one instance (_Trunks the forest yielded, with gums ambrosial oozing, & c. _) combining legitimate quantity ❋ Gaius Valerius Catullus (N/A)

He had a statesman-like partiality for the fag-end of an alcaic. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

Such unmeasured feelings could not be held within the controlled harmonies of the hexameter nor within sapphic or alcaic or Pindaric strophes. ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)

With the principal lyric metres, too, the sapphic and alcaic, he had done what Virgil had done with the dactylic hexameter, carried them to the highest point of which the foreign Latin tongue was capable. ❋ Unknown (1902)

The Virgilian movement differs not more from the Homeric, than does the Horatian sapphic or alcaic from the same metres as treated by their Greek inventors. ❋ Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1879)

In what particulars do the alcaic and sapphic metres of Horace differ from their Greek models? ❋ Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1879)

Odes and Epodes, thus acquired, were a score of days and weeks; alcaic and sapphic verses like a bead-roll for counting off the time that intervened before the holidays. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)

She had sung every species of melody and rythm, from the wildest dithyrambic to the severest and most grave alcaic; she had struck the lute, calling forth notes such as might have performed the miracles attributed to Orpheus and Amphion. ❋ Henry William Herbert (1832)

(tenuous enough at best) shimmer and blur as he became increasingly alcaic. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)

What was their joy, even at that perilous moment, as they lurked between the guardian and the abyss, to find that the box contained fifteen peerless odes in the alcaic form, five sonnets that were by far the most beautiful in the world, nine ballads in the manner of Provence that had no equal in the treasuries of man, a poem addressed to a moth in twenty-eight perfect stanzas, a piece of blank verse of over a hundred lines on a level not yet known to have been attained by man, as well as fifteen lyrics on which no merchant would dare to set a price. ❋ Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany (1917)

And as it is not poets who follow laws, but precede them -- as trochee and iambic, alcaic and hexameter, are the inventions of grammarians following on the trail of genius -- so it behoves the Aristotle who would discover the laws of the rhythm of prose to study the masters of the art, masters by instinct and a faultless ear and the grace of God, and endeavour by patient induction to wrest from their sentences the secrets of their harmonies. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)

'an easy and nice metre,' 'a hodge-podge lot of hendecasyllables, 'and thirty alcaic stanzas for a holiday task. ❋ John Morley (1880)

That fublime prophe (jf of Ifaiab, chap, xiv. which has been fo beautifully rendered into a Latin alcaic ode by Dr. Lowth, and into an EogUQi ode by Mr. Mafoo, is thus paraphrafed; ❋ Unknown (1776)