Analogies in English Poetry
In English poetry the type of meter that resembles, somehow, this Greek Political verse is the one called “iambic heptameter” or a “fourteener”. Such verses can be found in the English poetry, mainly of the 16th century but in other cases as well. An early example is the first translation into English of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” (1567) - credited to Arthur Golding. For example (from Book 2, THE SECONDE BOOKE OF OVIDS METAMORPHOSIS):
The Princely Pallace of the Sunne stood gorgeous to beholde
On stately Pillars builded high of yellow burnisht golde,
Beset with sparckling Carbuncles that like to fire did shine.
Another, later, example is from Lord Byron's Youth and Age:
'Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruin'd turret wreathe,
All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and gray beneath.
But in the English poetry each line usually has fourteen syllables (as the English term imply) whereas in Greek poetry the fifteen syllable line is the norm of the Political verse.
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