Alcaic stanza

A Alcaic verse (also Alkaiische verse ) is a named after the Greek poet Alcaeus Odenstrophe with a four-line, 11 -syllable of two, a nine -syllable and a 10 -syllable verse line. This contains a caesura after the fifth syllable and after the third lift a double reduction. This non-rhyming verse formed was first modeled in German by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and later mainly by Friedrich Hölderlin.

Scheme: u - u - u | - u u - u - u - u - u | - u u - u - u - u - u - u - u - U u - u u - u - u

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