The Metrical Structure of the Sapphic Hendecasyllable and Sappho’s Aiolikon in Lesbian Poetry

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Anni Arukask
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The works of Sappho and Alcaeus, 7th–6th century BC lyric poets from the island of Lesbos, represent the Aeolic tradition of ancient Greek poetry. In this paper, two metrical structures of this tradition, that both have two quantity-free positions (anceps, brevis in longo), are analysed and compared with regard to the quantitative tendencies of these positions. The first metrical structure, the Sapphic hendecasyllable, was used by both poets; the other, aiolikon, is not attested in Alcaeus’s work. The analysed corpus consists of all the survived lines in these meters. Due to the fragmentary nature of the material, the statistical analysis is presented in two sets to add and include the data of the Sapphic and Alcaic lines about which there is a suspicion that they may be in these meters, and also to differentiate dubious data from the undubious. In addition, the statistical data of the quantitative tendencies of the undubious lines is also expressed with generative models. In general, all the free positions, except the ancipites of Sappho’s aiolikon, display a preference for heavy syllables and the preference is more pronounced in the brevis in longo position, especially when it comes to aiolikon. Comparing the hendecasyllables, Alcaeus tends to have more heavy syllables than Sappho. Aiolikon’s free positions exhibit the biggest quantitative contrast.
女同性恋诗歌中萨斐亨德卡音节的韵律结构与萨斐的爱奥利康
公元前7至6世纪,莱斯博斯岛的抒情诗人萨福和阿尔卡乌斯的作品代表了古希腊诗歌的希腊传统。本文分析比较了这一传统的两种格律结构,它们都有两个无量的位置(anceps,longo中的brevis),并对这些位置的数量趋势进行了比较。两位诗人都使用了第一种格律结构,萨菲的十音节;另一种,aiolikon,在Alcaeus的作品中没有得到证实。被分析的语料库由这些米中所有幸存的行组成。由于材料的零碎性,统计分析分为两组,以添加和包括怀疑它们可能在这些米中的Sapphic和Alcaic线的数据,并将可疑数据与不稳定数据区分开来。此外,还用生成模型表达了不溶解线数量趋势的统计数据。一般来说,除了Sappho的aiolikon词尾之外,所有的自由位置都表现出对重音节的偏好,并且这种偏好在longo位置的短音符中更为明显,尤其是当涉及到aiolicon时。与hendeca音节相比,Alcaeus的音节往往比Sappho重。Aiolikon的自由头寸显示出最大的数量对比。
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Studia Metrica et Poetica
Studia Metrica et Poetica LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-
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