Aeolian meter

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Aeolian meter measures are verse forms of the ancient metric (verse construction), which are syllable-counting in Aiolic Greek , that is, they have a fixed number of syllables and, as is often the case, one length cannot be split into two abbreviations or two abbreviations merged into one length.

The so-called Aeolian base is typical , which means that any combination of shortness and length is possible for the first two syllables (——, —◡, ◡— or ◡◡). In metric notation , the aeolian base is represented by ○ ○ .

Well-known examples are (abbreviation and number of syllables in brackets):

Aeolian meters were first used in the Sapphic and Alkaean stanzas , in the Roman literature of Catullus , the Elegians, and in the Odes of Horace .

In the past, the Aeolian meters were also called logaedic , as they seemed to occupy a middle position between prose (Greek logos "speech") and verse (Greek aiode "song"). They were thought to be composed of dactyls and troches , for example the 2nd glyconeus

◡ ◡ —◡◡ — ◡ ◡

catalectically from a dactylus and three trochaes:

—◡ˌ — ◡◡ˌ — ◡ˌ—.

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