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+ Here declaring what is apparent in the work. This marginal note likely serves as a heading for the technical analysis following the previous page's calligraphy samples.

+ The iambic short-long-short iambic: a metrical foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one meter accepts in the odd positions short-long short-short-short short-short-short short-short-short—that is, the first, third, and fifth—the iamb, the tribrach: a foot of three short syllables, the spondee: a foot of two long syllables, the dactyl: one long syllable followed by two short, and the anapest: two short syllables followed by one long. In the even positions—that is, the second, fourth, and sixth—it accepts the iamb, the tribrach, and the anapest. This bold variation original: "to paratolmon," referring to the license taken by poets to substitute different feet is used by comic writers... in? Chios, but among iambic poets and tragic writers, it is rare. When the line is acatalectic: a verse that has the complete number of syllables, it accepts only the iamb at the end, or a pyrrhic: two short syllables short-short due to the "indifferent" syllable original: "adiaphoron"; in Greek poetry, the final syllable of a line is "anceps," meaning its length can be treated as either long or short regardless of the meter's strict rules. When it is catalectic: a verse missing its final syllable, it has an iamb in the penultimate position, or rarely a tribrach, so that the conclusion becomes either an amphibrach: short-long-short or a cyclic foot.

+ The trochaic long-short-long trochaic: a foot consisting of a long syllable followed by a short one meter accepts in the odd positions the trochee, the tribrach, the iamb, and the dactyl long-short-short long-short-long. In the even positions—that is, [the second, fourth, and sixth]—it also accepts the spondee and the anapest. When it is catalectic, it accepts an iamb in the penultimate position, or rarely a tribrach. If the line is brachycatalectic: a verse missing an entire foot at the end, it takes not only the penultimate four-count foot long-long-short.

+ The dactylic meter accepts the dactyl and the spondee in every position long-short-short except the last. In the last position, it is always catalectic because of the dactyl, having either long-short-short or long-short or long-long or short-short-short—an "indifferent" cretic: a foot of long-short-long. Dactylic endings consist of long-long either a single syllable or two syllables. The one is called "catalectic in a syllable," and the other "catalectic in two syllables." The meters called Aeolic A group of meters used by poets like Sappho and Alcaeus, characterized by a fixed number of syllables always have the first foot consisting of two syllables, which are "indifferent"—either a spondee, iamb, trochee, or pyrrhic. The first foot of the dactyl is present if there are also those called logaoedic original: "logoidika"; meters that combine dactyls and trochees, thought to sit between the rhythm of song (aoide) and speech (logos) dactyls, which have dactyls in the other positions, but the last position is a trochaic syzygy: a pair of feet treated as a single unit, as is known.

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