Catullus 8 meter scansion8/16/2023 ![]() ![]() In regards to the last question, I've listened to a sample of this poem read aloud online (it's on Latinum now but it was on another site not too long ago) and the reader sounds as if he's allowing "tibi" to be read as an iamb. Elision in Latin occurs if (1) one word ends in a vowel or diphthong and the next one begins in a vowel (Lesbia, atque ammus: Catullus 5. ![]() My questions are: 1) Is there some circumstance which would lengthen the final "i" to force "tibi" to fit the meter? 2) If there is not, would one read this poem aloud so as to allow "tibi" to interrupt the limping iambic, or would one allow a small pause to preserve the rigidity of the meter? In English poetry, metre is governed by where the stress falls. However, I wanted to check with all of you to make sure I'm not missing some special poetic circumstance that would lengthen the final "i" of "tibi." In each case "tibi" is followed by a single consonant ("soles" or "manet") and in lines 3 and 8, "tibi" appears in the fifth foot (fourth foot in line 15). File:Catullus 101 in Latin w Pronunciation Meter Notes Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus.webm. I'm aware that interrupting the flow of the meter is a poetic device in and of itself. In lines 3, 8, and 15, "tibi" interrupts the technical flow of the meter. The meter has no substitutions, and is made up of three choriambs. ![]() Greater Asclepiadean edit edit source Catullus uses this meter only in Poem 30. in the time of the Greek lyric poet, Anacreon. Wretched Catullus, stop being a fool, and what you see has perished, consider perished. I've recently been looking at Catullus VIII. This meter is as old as the 6th Century B.C. ![]()
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