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...
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"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...
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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...
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Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a social club in London. Smiths' song, "To Anacreon in Heaven" (or "The Anacreontic Song"), with various lyrics...
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Ionic meter (section Anacreontics)
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...
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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...
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Anaclasis (poetry) (section Anacreontic)
gives is not completely galliambic but in a metre which consists of two anacreontics without catalexis. George Choeroboscus (9th century AD?), in a discussion...
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Lyrical (1830), in which the following poems were published: "No More", '"Anacreontics" and "A Fragment" contributed to The Gem: A Literary Annual (1831) "Sonnet"...
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Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac Lekythion Anaclasis (poetry)...
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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...
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