alcaic

adjective

1. pertaining to Alcaeus or to certain meters or a form of strophe or stanza used by, or named after, him.

noun

2. Alcaics, Alcaic verses or strophes.

adjective

1. of or relating to a metre used by the 7th-century bc Greek lyric poet Alcaeus, consisting of a strophe of four lines each with four feet

noun

2. (usually plural) verse written in the Alcaic form