Structure, Metrical Requirement, Stanzaic

This form is a bit of a mess borrowed from the Greeks. Non-native forms don’t often translate well in new languages. It is a quatrain form. Described in the technical terms of meter, the first two lines contain an acephelous iamb, two trochees, and two dactyls; the third line is an acephelous iamb and four trochees; and the last is two dactyls and two trochees. The form is unrhymed.

Greek

X Xx Xx Xxx Xxx
X Xx Xx Xxx Xxx
X Xx Xx Xx Xx
Xxx Xxx Xx Xx

4

Dactyl, Iamb, Trochee

Incomplete