Alcaic Verse

or Alcaïcs. A Greek and Latin metre, so called from Alcœos, a lyric poet, who invented it. Each line is divided into two parts, thus:

The first two lines of each stanza of the ninth ode of Horace are in Alcaics. The first two lines of the ode run thus, and in the same metre:

“See how Soracté groans with its wintry snow,