Sotadean metre

Poetic metre used in Ancient Greek and Latin

The sotadean metre was a rhythmic pattern used by and named after the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Sotades. It is generally classified as a type of ionic metre, though in fact it is half ionic and half trochaic. It has several variations, but the usual pattern is this:– – u u | – – u u | – u – u | – –

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