Greek poetry is based on syllable length, not on syllable stress, as in English. The two syllable lengths in Greek poetry are long and short. It is probable that in the natural spoken language there were also syllables of … See more

Lyric meters (literally, meters sung to a lyre) are usually less regular than non-lyric meters. The lines are made up of feet of different kinds, and can be of varying lengths. Some lyric meters were used for monody (solo songs), such as some of the poems of See more

• Annis, William S. (2006) Introduction to Greek Meter See more

Non-lyric meters are those used for narrative, funeral elegies, the dialogue of tragedies, pastoral poetry, and didactic poetry. A characteristic of these metres is that every line is the same length throughout the poem (except for the elegiac couplet, in … See more

Anaclasis – an interchange of the final long syllable of the first metron with the opening short syllable of the second.
Catalexis – Absence of a syllable in the last foot of a verse.
Metron – Each of a series of identical or equivalent units, … See more