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Note that the upper expressions? are measured by the syzygy: a metrical unit consisting of two feet joined together, but the measure is also taken by monopody: a single metrical foot.

+ The anapaestic short-short-long meter accepts a spondee: two long syllables in every position, as well as the anapest: two short syllables followed by one long. Rarely, it also accepts a proceleusmatic: four short syllables. Among the dramatists, it may even admit the iamb: short-long and the dactyl: long-short-short. There are six original: "apothesis," referring to the possible endings or 'cadences' of a line types of endings for it: a syzygy reduced by more than two syllables (hypercatalectic: a line with extra syllables at the end), a hypercatalectic of two syllables, acatalectic: a complete line with no missing or extra syllables, catalectic: a line missing its final syllable into two syllables, catalectic into a single syllable, and brachycatalectic: a line missing an entire foot or a significant portion of its end. Just as in the dactylic meter where a "double-colon" remains, so in the anapaestic, the line ending in a bacchius: one short followed by two longs is the most notable; specifically, the "self-measured" bacchius after four feet, the first of which can become both a spondee and an iamb.

+ The choriambic long-short-short-long is composed both in its "pure" form and mixed with iambic elements. Whenever it is catalectic incomplete at the end, it concludes with the iambic "clausula" a rhythmic closing phrase, which is to say an amphibrach: short-long-short or a bacchius, because of the indifferent syllable: the final syllable of a line whose length—long or short—does not change the meter's validity. It may also conclude in an iamb, a dactyl, or a cretic: long-short-long; however, these are not well-timed, for they are unseemly.

+ The antispastic short-long-long-short has its first syzygy changeable in its first foot into the four shapes of the disyllable the four possible two-syllable combinations: spondee, iamb, trochee, or pyrrhic. The middle sections are pure antispastics, and the last part, when it is acatalectic, is iambic. If it is mixed with iambics, not only is the first syzygy changeable in the first foot, but also in the following iambics. There are times when

the first foot is also resolved the replacement of one long syllable with two short ones into a tribrach: three short syllables.

+ The ionic a maiore long-long-short-short literally "the greater ionic" is composed both in its pure form and mixed with trochaic long-short elements. However, when it is entirely acatalectic, the ionic rarely forms the ending, because the ionic foot appearing at the very end of a line is considered unseemly.

+ The ionic a minore short-short-long-long literally "the lesser ionic" is composed pure and also mixed. These feet are placed first and doubled in such a way that when joined to a trochaic foot, it becomes a "five-time" unit original: "pentasemos," referring to the total duration of the syllables, which is a third paeonic: a foot consisting of one long and three short syllables in various orders. When the trochaic is placed before the ionic, the trochaic is lengthened into what is called a "second epitrite" long-long-short-long. Sometimes the paeonic is contracted into a palimbacchius: long-long-short. In the following trochaic foot, the first part is resolved into a tribrach. Molossi: three long syllables also fall into the positions of the ionic a minore, just as they do in the ionic a maiore on even-numbered positions.

+ The paeonic one long, three shorts accepts three variations: the cretic, the bacchius, and the palimbacchius. It is these that subtly distinguish it from the other meters, but the cretic is the most suitable. The resolutions of this meter are also called "paeons." Among the poets themselves, it is also called "cretic." So much for the nine types of meters that are uniform and similar. In every meter, the last syllable is "indifferent," so that it can be treated as either short or long. And so the meters are concluded in this description, from which many-seated the things? having thus...