Archaic lyric was characterized by strophic composition and live musical performance. These archaic and classical musician-poets included Sappho, Alcaeus, Anacreon and Pindar. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria created a canon of nine lyric poets deemed especially worthy of critical study. The lyric or melic poet was distinguished from the writer of plays (although Athenian drama included choral odes, in lyric form), the writer of trochaic and iambic verses (which were recited), the writer of elegies (accompanied by the flute, rather than the lyre) and the writer of epic. Because such works were typically sung, it was also known as melic poetry. Some forms have a combination of meters, often using a different meter for the refrain.įor the ancient Greeks, lyric poetry had a precise technical meaning: Verse that was accompanied by a lyre, cithara, or barbitos. Spondaic – two syllables, with two successive long or stressed syllables.Dactylic – three syllables, with the first one long or stressed and the other two short or unstressed.
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