Διὸς τόδ’ ἔργον καὶ τόδ’ ἂν γένος λέγων
ἐξ Ἐπάφου κυρήσαις (Æsch., Supplices, 582 sqq.).
⏑⁝⏗|⏗|–⏑|–⏑|⏗|–ꞈ‖
–˃|–⏑⏑|⏗|–ꞈ‖
⏑⁝–⏑|–⏑|–⏑|⏗‖–⏑|–⏑⏑|⏗|–ꞈ‖
–⏑|–⏑⏑|–⏑|⏗‖–⏑|–⏑⏑|⏗|–ꞈ‖
⏑⁝–⏑|–˃|–⏑|–⏑|–⏑|–ꞈ‖
–⏑⏑|–⏑|⏗|–ꞈ〛.
⎰ 6 ⎞
⎛ ⎱ 4 ⎟ ⎞
⎜ ⎰ 4 ⎞ ⎟ ⎟
⎜ ⎛ ⎱ 4 ⎟ ⎞ ⎟ ⎟
⎜ ⎝ ⎰ 4 ⎠ ⎟ ⎟ ⎟
⎜ ⎱ 4 ⎠ ⎟ ⎟
⎝ ⎰ 6 ⎠ ⎟
⎱ 4 ⎠
(iv) Any of the three periods just described, the stichic, the palinodic, the antithetic (whether simple or palinodic-antithetic) may be “mesodic,” that is, it may be grouped round a central colon (the mesode), to which no colon corresponds, save of course the mesode of the other strophe. The schemes, then, are:—
(a) Stichic-mesodic.
a ⎞
x ⎟
a ⎠
(b) Palinodic-mesodic.
⎰ a ⎞
⎛ ⎱ b ⎟ ⎞
⎜ x ⎟ ⎟
⎝ ⎰ a ⎠ ⎟
⎱ b ⎠