adjective

A four-line verse stanza in the meter invented by the Greek poet Alcaeus, and later used in a slightly altered form by the Roman poet Horace.

It was monodic, and was composed in a variety of lyric metres in two or four-line stanzas, including the alcaic stanza, named after him.

plural noun

Alcaic verse.

He employed the classical elegiacs and alcaics with ease, and was equally at home with trochaic and iambic lines.