The Saturnian As Quantitative
Most—but not all—Saturnians can be captured by the following scheme:
- ∪ = light syllable
- – = heavy syllable
- ∪∪ = two light syllables that occupy the space of one heavy
- || = caesura
- ∪ over – (x at verse-end) = position can be occupied by either light or heavy syllable
- ∪∪ over – over ∪ = position can be occupied by any of the three
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