Meter

What are the 3 types of meter?

• Dactylic Hexameter

• Hendecsyllabic Hexameter

• Sapphic Stanza

What is Dactylic Hexameter used for?

Epic poetry

What Catullus poems are written in Hendecsyllabic Hexameter?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 5

• 7

• 8

• 11

What Catullus poems are written in Sapphic Stanza?

• 11

• 51

How many feet are in each line of Hendecsyllabic Hexameter?

6 Feet

How many syllables are in each line of Hendecsyllabic Hexameter?

11 syllabes

Dactylic Hexameter formula

Dactyl

“long - short - short”

Spondee

“long - long”

What are the last two feet of Hendecsyllabic Hexameter?

foot 5 - dactyl

foot 6 - spondee

What happens when two consents come after a vowel?

The vowel becomes long

Ellison

Sliding two words together (takes away syllables)

ex. one word ends in a vowel and one word begins with a vowel —» vowel on the end of the first word gets eliminated