The Music of Hindostan c13.s2.19
The Music of Hindostan c13.s2.19
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c13.s2.19
It will be noticed that the line is composed of the first half of an Alcaic (◡ — ◡ — —) and the second half of a Sapphic (◡ ◡ — ◡ — ◡). And there is a pretty story of Alcaeus having sent Sappho a line which began, similarly, in his metre and ended in hers: