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Anacreontic full five-foot

Meter
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A complete five-foot line in the Anacreontic meter, typically dactylic or iambic, used in celebratory or convivial classical poetry.

Detailed Definition
Anacreontic full five-foot line consists of five metrical feet in the Anacreontic style, extending the traditional celebratory verse associated with Anacreon to greater length. This fuller measure allows for more elaborate development of themes related to pleasure, wine, and love while maintaining the characteristic lightness and grace of Anacreontic verse. The five-foot line provides sufficient space for complete thoughts while preserving the meter's essential buoyancy and conversational ease.
Example
Example in poetry:
Anacreontic full five-foot lines appear in Thomas Moore’s “Anacreontic Song”: “Fill the bowl with rosy wine… Let us drink and be merry”; In Ben Jonson’s “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes,” the meter mimics Anacreon’s light, lyrical iambic trimeter expanded to five feet; A.C. Swinburne’s “Anactoria” adapts the Anacreontic rhythm for sensual intensity; Modern poet A.E. Stallings uses Anacreontic five-foot lines in “Sestina: Like” to blend classical form with contemporary diction; Richard Wilbur’s “A Late Aubade” echoes Anacreontic meter in its playful, hedonistic tone.
Additional Notes
Anacreontic full five-foot is an Anacreontic line consisting of five metrical feet, used in the Greek lyric tradition and characterized by a light, flowing, often choriambic rhythm.
Also Known As
Anacreontic pentameter Five-foot Anacreontic Wine-poem measure Anacreontic pentameter acatalectic
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