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	Learn more about Meter (poetry) in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In literature, meter is a term used in the scansion of poetry, usually indicated by the kind of feet and the number of them.
		This meter was used most often in the Sapphic stanza, named after the Greek poet Sappho, who wrote many of her poems in the form.
		Another important meter in English is the ballad meter, also called the "common meter", which is a four line stanza, with two lines of iambic tetrameter followed by two lines of iambic trimeter; the rhymes usually fall on the lines of trimeter, although in many instances the tetrameter also rhymes.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/me/meter__poetry_.html (1462 words)

	Sapphic meter
		While Sappho used several metrical forms for her poetry, she is most famous for the Sapphic stanza.
		Her countryman Alcaeus uses the Sapphic stanza; Sappho does not use the Alcaic.
		The Sapphic stanza is composed of three hendecasyllable lines followed by an adonean[?] (or adonic[?]) (using "-" for a long syllable, "u" for a short and "x" for an "anceps" or free syllable):
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/sa/Sapphic_meter.html (134 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Poetic Form: Sapphic
		The original sapphic form was determined by quantitative meter, based on the nature of the ancient Greek language in which syllables were either long or short, depending on vowel length and ending sound.
		However, modern sapphics are rendered in accentual meter determined instead by the stress and intensity of a syllable.
		The accentual meter of the sapphic approximates the original form by equating long syllables with stressed ones, and short syllables with unstressed ones.
	www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5790 (453 words)

	Anceps
		In Greek and Latin meter, an anceps syllable is a syllable in a metrical line which can be either short or long.
		Second, anceps syllables in the middle or beginning of a line are characteristic of Aeolic meters, such as the Sapphic meter.
		These initial anceps syllables reflect earlier Indo-European meters where only the last few syllables of a line were regulated.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/an/Anceps.html (125 words)

	Diotima
		Meter is measurement, and what Latin meter measures are set patterns of syllables pronounced for a relatively long or short duration.
		Traditional English meter, by contrast with Greek and Latin, measures two rhythmic components: (1) the number of stresses and (2) their position within a fixed number of syllables.
		These meters are often deployed in rhymed couplets or other stanzaic forms--some traditional and some nonce inventions--that lack even the slightest organic relationship to the Latin stanzas.
	www.stoa.org /diotima/anthology/horawillmet.shtml (1699 words)

	Magister White - Latin Meter and Scansion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Hendecasyllabic Meter is a lyric meter and very common in the works of Catullus (43 out of the first 60).
		It is a lyrical meter and consists of three identical lines followed by what is called an adonic, giving the line a sense of closure based on its rhythmical similarities to the end of a hexameter.
		The Dactylic Hexameter is the meter of epic, didactic and pastoral poetry.
	www.frapanthers.com /teachers/white/scansion.htm (1208 words)

	Sapphic stanza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is a poetic form spanning four lines.
		The form is three hendecasyllabic lines of trochee, trochee, dactyl, trochee, trochee and a concluding line of dactyl, trochee, known as the Adonic or adonean line.
		The Sapphic stanza was imitated in English by Algernon Charles Swinburne in a poem he simply called Sapphics:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sapphic_stanza (220 words)

	Sappho: A Greek Poet
		Sappho was called a lyrist because, as was the custom of the time, she wrote her poems to be performed with the accompaniement of a lyre.
		She composed her own music, and refined the already existing lyric meter to a point that it is now known as the sapphic meter.
		That Sappho's poetry was not condemned in her time for its homoerotic content (though it was deemed obscene by the Church and scholars later on), suggests that perhaps love between women was not persecuted then as it has been in more recent times.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Rhodes/1319/herstory/sappho.html (542 words)

	Anceps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anceps syllables in the middle or beginning of a line are characteristic of Aeolic meters, such as the Sapphic meter.
		These initial anceps syllables may reflect earlier Indo-European meters where only the last few syllables of a line were regulated.
		The possibility of brevis in longo is found universally across all meters, while the anceps is found only in particular verse forms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anceps (189 words)

	Biography of Sappho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		She was a lyric poet who developed her own particular meter, known as sapphic meter, and she was credited for leading an aesthetic movement away from classical themes of gods, to the themes of individual human experience.
		The word lesbian itself is derived from the name of the island of Lesbos from which she came.
		Due to its homosexual content--and because of its explicit eroticism--her work was disapproved of by the Christian church, which is arguably the main reason why most of it has not survived, due to a combination of neglecting to copy it and undoubtedly in some cases purposeful destruction.
	biography-2.qardinalinfo.com /s/Sappho.html (430 words)

	New Sapphic Poem by Books Blog
		This entry was posted on Saturday, June 25th, 2005 at 10:48 pm and is tagged with sapphic poem, immortal wife, tender body, once on a time, tithonus, fawns, sappho, lyre, muses, hairs, knees, fleet, dawn, hearts, rose, girls, smitten, love, zealous.
		And, although Stoppard?s play deals with Marxism, materialism and Sapphic poetry, it is above all a celebration of the pagan spirit embodied by...
		admit in rather sapphic phrasing that she got the idea from her "craving" to see...
	books.elliottback.com /archives/2005/06/25/new-sapphic-poem (376 words)

	Sapphic meter: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...of Aeolic meters, such as the Sapphic meter.
		...her own particular meter, known as sapphic meter, and she was credited for leading an aesthetic movement away...much rarer synonym sapphic, derived from her name.) Due to its homosexual content--and because of...
		Post a link to definition / meaning of " Sapphic meter " on your site.
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	Literary Terms and Definitions S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		SAPPHIC METER:Typically, this meter is found in quatrains in which the first three lines consist of eleven syllables and the fourth line contains five.
		SAPPHIC ODE: Virtually identical with a Horatian ode, a Sapphic ode consists of quatrains in which the first three lines consist of eleven syllables and the fourth line contains five.
		The metrical pattern is described under Sapphic meter.
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/lit_terms_S.html (9828 words)

	Aeolic verse Sapphic meter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ashley; This is a poem I wrote in Sapphic meter.
		Sappho (pronounced saffo) (the original Lesbian from the Island of Lesbos invented Sapphic meter).
		So this would be a Lesbian love poem but don’t mention it in the film.
	www.bright.net /~dapoets/DATV/ashpoem.htm (58 words)

	Sappho Criticism and Essays
		Though she used a less refined language than that of the formal Ionian literary mode employed in Homeric epic, Sappho's poetry is said to demonstrate an innate verbal elegance that closely mirrors the rhythms of natural speech.
		Her standard metrical form, designated as the Sapphic meter by scholars, consists of four lines: three with eleven syllables each and a fourth line of five syllables.
		Characteristically mellifluous, Sappho's verse also exhibits her trademark directness, whether she is writing about nature, the gods, or the voluptuous physique of one of her pupils.
	www.enotes.com /classical-medieval-criticism/sappho (1407 words)

	Sapphics
		In addition to its strict syllable count, the stanza also has a very particular meter: in the first three lines, two trochees, followed by a dactyl, followed by two more trochees; in the last, one dactyl and one trochee.
		The poem's Sapphic form, I hoped, would serve as a sharp contrast to my contemporary subject, but I also felt that it could bestow on that subject a subtle dignity: what these people are doing, the form quietly reminds us, has been going on for thousands of years.
		Among the contemporary poets who have written sapphic stanzas are James Merrill, Rachel Hadas, Marilyn Hacker, Timothy Steele and (of course) Hollander.
	www.public.asu.edu /~aarios/formsofverse/anecdotes/page5.html (703 words)

	Lesbian Herstory - From When The Name Came
		Sappho was a lyrical poet, well-known for the tone, meter, and grace of her poetry.
		Her work was so groundbreaking and marvelous that the Greek meter she often used was named after her and continues to bear that name to this day.
		English-speaking women will never fully know the wonders of Sappho's work, not only because so little of it was preserved, but also because the Sapphic meter is unique to the style, tone, and rhythm of the Greek language and does not translate to English.
	www.lorillake.com /FromWhence.html (1505 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Arts & Culture. Who Was Sappho? \| PBS
		One or two complete poems may exist of the whole set — the rest can only be imagined using the fragments that have survived.
		Sappho was notable in that she refined the prevailing lyric meter of the time, and her unique meter has come to be called "Sapphic meter." She wrote on themes of love, yearning, and reflection, from a personal point-of-view, and describing her experience as a woman, all of which were rare in ancient times.
		It is known that she was well-respected in her time, as her image appeared on coins of Lesbos, Plato dubbed her the "Tenth Muse," and the Athenian ruler, lawyer, and poet Solon is said to have been a great admirer.
	www.pbs.org /now/arts/sappho.html (373 words)

	Commentary Cons. Phil. Book 2 Metrum 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Vacillation between peace and turmoil is common and characteristic of all the world of nature.
		The sapphic consists of a cretic (- u -) + a headless hipponactean, i.e., a hipponactean that has been shortened by one element at the beginning (x - u u - u - -).
		It has a caesura after the fifth syllable.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/jod/boethius/jkok/2m3_n.htm (99 words)

	the Lesbian maiden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I include this to show you how bizarre meter schemes can get.
		I've never actually written any Sapphics, and in fact I had to look the scheme up as I can never remember it.
		It is, as you might guess, an adaptation of a scheme employed by Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from the isle of Lesbos.
	www2.one-eyed-alien.net /~ayelton/Writing/sapphics.html (183 words)

	Translating Horace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I don't really try to be faithful to Horace's metrical scheme (though if he chose Sapphic meter then I'll keep it Sapphic to honor the Tenth Muse) -- instead I try to find something that will work in English.
		I guess I settle on a meter by starting to chop up my prose version into lines and seeing how many feet per line will work.
		I suppose that purists would scoff at some of my translations, but I am striving for poetic life, not necessarily scholarly rigor (although I do try to stay as close as I can to the original).
	www.saint-andre.com /journal/2000-10-04.html (289 words)

	Lesbian poetry: Please by Sappho
		Sappho was one of the first poets to switch from writing from the view of the deities and muses to writing in first person, expressing her own feelings.
		She was so influential that the high Greek lyrical meter is now called sapphic meter.
		The people of Syracuse were so honored by her visit that they erected a statue of her.
	www.thissideofsanity.com /poem/poem0208/poem27.html (286 words)

	Salem Press
		In addition to being well-known for her subject matter, Sappho has come to be associated with a particular metrical form.
		Although she was probably not the inventor of Sapphic meter, it has been so named because of her frequent use of it.
		In Sapphic meter, the stanza consists of three lines, each of which contains five feet—two trochees, a dactyl, and two more trochees—with a concluding fourth line of one dactyl and one trochee.
	salempress.com /Store/samples/notable_poets/notable_poets_sappho.htm (3137 words)

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		C. Milman Parry: studied at the Sorbonne; dissertation on Serbo-Croatian oral poetry; visits Yugoslavia (Bosnia); feast of Ramadan; oral poets; guslar, a musical instrument; the meter is trochaic pentameter
		Direct poetic link with the Mycenaean Age: Homer is at the end of an oral tradition; introduction of writing and the end of the oral tradition
		lyric poetry: personal and introspective; her use of language (alliteration and assonance); the Sapphic meter.
	chssfp.montclair.edu /kellyd/ghoutearlygreece.htm (823 words)

	Latin 110
		We begin with an introduction to the Rome of Catullus' day, the meters of his poetry and the background of the poetry of Hellenistic Alexandria.
		Lecture: An Introduction to Roman Society in the Late Republic and the Rules of Latin Prosody.
		Assignment: Read Garrison, pp.171-2 on meter; Poem 1.
	faculty.maxwell.syr.edu /cchampion/Latin/Latin315.html (497 words)

	Italy - Italian Renaissance - Sapphic or Alcaic meter
		Italian Renaissance - Italy - Sapphic or Alcaic meter...
		On the other hand, we can find scarcely an ode in the Sapphic or Alcaic meter, which does not clearly betray its modern origin.
		This is shown mostly by a rhetorical verbosity, rare in antiquity before the time of Statius, and by a singular want of the lyrical concentration which is indispensable to this style of poetry.
	www.exploitz.com /book/History/Italian_Renaissance/95-Sapphic-or-Alcaic-meter.php (577 words)

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		Both present a number of very difficult challenges to the translator.
		11 is one of only two Catullan poems written in Sapphic meter, the first decision a translator must make is whether that metrical fact is significant, and if so how the meter should be indicated in English.
		Syntax is no less a challenge than meter in c.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /mcl/faculty/armstrong/vandiver.html (704 words)

	Sappho: The Ancient Poetess,Sappho: The Ancient Poetess
		She not only wrote the poems but also composed the music.
		She wrote in Aeolic dialect in lyric meter that later became known to writers as the Sapphic Meter, named after Sappho.
		The lyrical poetry and technique made her a part of the wave of Greek lyrists who wrote from the point of view of the gods and muses instead of the common individual.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/her_story/87205 (523 words)

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