anacreontic

The anacreontic may be analyzed as a syncopated form of ionics, - - - -.

He also wrote 23 Anacreontic (classical metre) poems on such themes as the Saracen siege of Jerusalem and on various liturgical celebrations.

While the Anacreontic may well not be in its origin an "anaclastic" variant of the Ionic dimeter (˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ), the two meters have been associated since Anacreon, who often used them together in compositions.

The poems from that period include fugitive, light pieces in the Anacreontic and Horatian manner, some of which have been recognized as the masterpieces of the kind, as well as love elegies, where a delicate sentiment is clothed in brilliant wit.