THE IAMBELEGUS.

2678. This verse consists of a trochaic dimeter catalectic with

anacrusis + a Lesser Archilochian (2579). No resolutions are allowed in

the first colon, and the dactyls in the second colon are never replaced

by spondees. There is regularly a diaeresis between the two cola. The

scheme is:--

⏑͐ ⁞ -́ ⏑ | -̇ ⏑͐ | -́ ⏑ | -̇ ⌃ # -́ ⏑ | -́ ⏑ | -́ ⌅

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