1. That which is most frequently used is the Phalæcian hendecasyllable, consisting of a spondee, dactyl, and three trochees.
“Cui do | no lepi | dum no | vum li | bellum.”
This sort of measure has been adopted by Catullus in thirty-nine poems.
2. Trimeter iambus, consisting of six feet, which are generally all iambuses.
“Ait | fuis | se na | vium | celer | rimus;”
but a spondee sometimes forms the first, third, and fifth feet. Four poems are in this measure—the fourth, twentieth, twenty-ninth, and fifty-second.
3. Choliambus or scazon, which is the same with the last mentioned, except that the concluding foot of the line is always a spondee.
“Fulse | re quon | dam can | didi | tibi | soles.”
This metre is used seven times, being employed in the eighth, twenty-second, thirty-first, thirty-seventh, thirty-ninth, forty-fourth, and fifty-ninth poems.
4. Trochaic Stesichian, consisting of six feet—choreus or spondee, a dactyl, a cretic, a choreus or spondee, a dactyl, and lastly a choreus.