Talk:Heterodyne (poetry)

It would be nice if someone who understands this term would add some examples. Wolfrick 16:03, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Isn't it just the phenomenon that the ictus of the foot does not align with the word-accent? As is extremely common in almost all types of Ancient Greek and Latin verse. Having studied latin for some years now, I have yet to see this specific term. Austin, in his commentaries of individual books of the Aeneid, will in most cases just refer to the "clashing of ictus and accent", as far as I remember. George Duckworth seems to use the dichotomy of homodyne and heterodyne in his article "Five Centuries of Latin Hexameter Poetry" in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol 98, 1967. An example could be Vergil Aen. IV,5: (with á marking ictus and à marking word accent, â marking coincidence of ictus and accent)

uérbàque néc plàcidám mèmbrís dàt cûra quiêtem 77.233.241.12 (talk) 11:51, 30 July 2010 (UTC)