THE PHALAECEAN (or _Hendecasyllable_).
2664. This verse is a logaoedic pentapody with the dactyl in the second
place. The Greek poets admitted the trochee and iambus, as well as the
spondee, in the first foot, and Catullus followed their example; but in
Petronius, Martial, and the _Priāpēa_ the first foot is always a
spondee, and in later writers nearly always. Horace does not use the
Phalaecean. There is no fixed caesura, though the penthemimeral is often
found. The scheme is:--
[-́ ⏑] |
-́ > | -́ ⏑⏑ | -́ ⏑ | -́ ⏑ | - ⏑
[⏑́ -] |