example of anacreontics from the corpus of Anacreon is fr. 11b PMG, which ends as follows: In this extract, the first four lines are anacreontics, while the...

"The Anacreontic Song", also known by its incipit "To Anacreon in Heaven", was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's...

court poet Anacreon, who lived in the 6th century B.C. and whose poems, "anacreontics", were used to entertain patrons in Teos and Athens. Dubbed "the convivial...

Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a social club in London. Smiths' song, "To Anacreon in Heaven" (or "The Anacreontic Song"), with various lyrics...

Petronius. In English poetry, Edward Fitzgerald composed in a combination of anacreontics and ionics. An example of English ionics occurs in lines 4 and 5 of the...

Johann Christian Bach. Smith is best known for writing the music for "The Anacreontic Song", which became the tune for the American patriotic song "The Star-Spangled...

gives is not completely galliambic but in a metre which consists of two anacreontics without catalexis. George Choeroboscus (9th century AD?), in a discussion...

Lyrical (1830), in which the following poems were published: "No More", '"Anacreontics" and "A Fragment" contributed to The Gem: A Literary Annual (1831) "Sonnet"...

Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac Lekythion Anaclasis (poetry)...

example composed entirely in ionic feet, with ten feet to each stanza. Anacreontics are also very rare. The Galliambic metre of Catullus's poem 63 (but of...