Catullus

[Rhapsody]

What kind of metres does catullus use? I Know vergil uses Dactylic hexameter, phaedrus iambic hexameter and horace a lot of them.

[benissimus]

I have seen poems of his in all of these metres: choliambic, hendecasyllabic, Phalacean, elegiac couplets

[Ulpianus]

Lots of different metres, I believe, but the majority of poems are either hendecasyllables (mostly in, and most of, the first 58 poem) or elegiacs (65 to 116) with 62 + 64 dactylic hexameter. The rest a variety, in particular a range of different iambics.

So I think he falls into the "lot of them" camp, probably. Apparently his pentameters are "uncouth" ... Lucky someone told me: useful to know the right thing to say: "Catullus, so fresh, but his pentameter ... what must one say ... uncouth!"

[Rhapsody]

Ok! thank you very much

[benissimus]

There is also that beautiful Catullus 63 which is apparently in a unique and mysterious metre. I just remembered I also saw a Catullus poem in Sapphic stanza.