List of classical meters |
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The following meters were used in Greek poetry and borrowed into Latin poetry in the classical period:
Major Forms
- Dactylic hexameter
- Elegiac couplet, consisting of a line of dactylic hexameter and one of dactylic pentameter
- Iambic trimeter
Aeolics
Lyric Meters and Minor Forms
- Choliambic, also known as limping iambs or scazons
- Dochmiac
- Priapean
- Galliambic
- Asclepiadean
- Archilochean
- Pythiambic
- Alcmanic stanza
- Hipponactean