Английская Википедия:Alcmanian verse
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Greek and Latin metre Alcmanian verse refers to the dactylic tetrameter in Greek and Latin poetry.[1]
Dactylic tetrameter in Alcman
Ancient metricians called the dactylic tetrameter the Alcmanic because of its use by the Archaic Greek poet Alcman, as in fragment 27 PMG:
- | – uu – uu – uu – uu |
- | – uu – uu – uu – uu |
- | – – – uu – uu – uu |
- 'Come, Muse Calliope, daughter of Zeus,
- Begin the lovely words, add beauty
- And lovely dance to our hymn.'
This length is scanned like the first four feet of the dactylic hexameter (giving rise to the name dactylic tetrameter a priore). Thus, a spondee substitutes for a dactyl in the third line, but the lines end with dactyls (not spondees).
The final syllable of each line in the above fragment counts as short and Шаблон:Lang is not observed.
The Alcmanian (or Alcmanic) strophe
Horace composed some poems in the Alcmanian strophe[2] or Alcmanian system. It is also called the Alcmanic strophe[3] or the 1st Archilochian.[4] It is a couplet consisting of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic tetrameter a posteriore (so called because it ends with a spondee, thus resembling the last four feet of the hexameter). Examples are Odes I.7 and I.28, and Epode 12:
- 'What do you want for yourself, woman worthy of black elephants?[5]
- Why (do you send) me gifts and billets-doux?'
It is the only metre in Horace's Epodes not to contain any iambic metra, and the only one to be found in both the Epodes and Odes.
Later Latin poets use the dactylic tetrameter a priore as the second verse of the Alcmanian strophe. For example, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy I.m.3:
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- 'Then as the night was shaken off, the darkness became clear
- and the former strength returned to my eyes.
- Just as when clouds gather with a strong north-west wind
- and the sky threatens with cloudy rainshowers,
- The Sun is hidden and, the stars not yet coming to the sky,
- night is poured from above onto the earth.
- But if the North Wind, released from his Thracian cave,
- were to beat the earth and unlock the closed up day,
- Phoebus bursts out and gleaming with sudden light
- strikes our amazed eyes with his rays.'
Ausonius uses couplets of a dactylic tetrameter a priore followed by a hemiepes in Parentalia 25:
- 'You also, Dryadia my aunt,
- with mournful strains...'[6]
In modern poetry
The term "Alcmanian" is sometimes applied to modern English dactylic tetrameters (e.g. Robert Southey's "Soldier's Wife": "Wild-visaged Wanderer, ah, for thy heavy chance!"), or to poems (e.g. in German) that strictly imitate Horace's meters.
References
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ "Alcmanian strophe": J. B. Greenough et al (1903): Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, §617a.
- ↑ N. Rudd (2004) Horace: Odes and Epodes (Google books), p. 14; P. A. Miller (2018). Horace (Google books).
- ↑ Nisbet, R. G. M. & Hubbard, M. (1970).'A Commentary on Horaces Odes Book 1. (Oxford), p. xiv.
- ↑ i.e. with an insatiable sexual appetite: Lowrie, M. (2005). "Review: The Epodes: A Commentary on Horace's "Epodes" by L. C. Watson. The Classical Review., New Series, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Oct., 2005), pp. 525–528; p. 525.
- ↑ H. G. Evelyn-White (transl.), Ausonius, vol. 1, Loeb Classical Library, p. 91.
