2714. This consists of four Ionic _ā minōre_ feet, the last one
incomplete. _Anaclasis_, resolution, and contraction are extremely
common, and the multiplication of short syllables gives the verse a
peculiarly wild and frenzied movement. Catullus very rarely admits
Ionics that are not anaclastic (_never_ in the first half of the verse,
except the doubtful cases 63, 18; 54; 75); but Varro is less strict in
this regard. The penultimate long is nearly always resolved. There is
rarely more than one resolution in the same half-verse. A diaeresis
regularly occurs after the second foot. The scheme is:--
⏕ ⏕́ [⏓] | [⏕] ⏑ [⏑] - # ⏕ ⏕́ [⏓] | [⏑] ⏑ ⏓́ ⌅
[Transcriber’s Note:
For brackets, see below, after § 2717.]