Example
A typical example of the use of Political verse in Greek folk poetry is the beginning of the medieval ballad The Bridge of Arta (Το γεφύρι της Άρτας):
Original, phonetic transcription:
Saránta pénte mástori - ki' eksínda mathitádhes
Yofírin ethemélionan - stis Ártas to potámi.
Olimerís to khtízane, - to vrádhi gremizótan.
The same 15-syllable iambs in English:
The master-builders forty-five, - apprentice builders sixty,
were laying the foundations - to bridge the Arta river,
and they would build it all day long: - it fell down in the evening.
This excerpt is also typical in terms of content arrangement: the parts before the cesura make an initial statement and the parts after the cesura append, clarify, or retort that statement.
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