The Meters of Greek Poetry -- 1. Sigla -- 2. Metrics and Prosody -- 3. The Period -- 4. Caesura, Diaeresis, Bridge -- 5. The Hexameter -- 6. The Elegiac Couplet -- 7. The Iambic Trimeter -- 8. The Trochaic Tetrameter -- 9. Lyric Meters -- 10. Lyric Dactyls -- 11. Anapaests -- 12. Lyric Iambs and Trochees -- 13. Ionic Meters -- 14. Complex Lyric Meters -- 15. Epodes and Asynarteta -- 16. Aeolic Meters -- 17. Pindar and Bacchylides -- 18. Tragedy and Comedy -- 19. Dochmiacs -- 20. Post-Classical Developments -- The Meters of Latin Poetry -- I. Sigla -- II. Metrics and Prosody -- III. The Period -- IV. Caesura and Diaeresis -- V. Spoken Verse: Dactylic Hexameter -- VI. Spoken Verse: The Elegiac Couplet -- VII. Spoken Verse: Iambic Meters -- VIII. Spoken Verse: Trochaic Meters -- IX. Lyric Poetry -- X. Lyric Dactyls -- XI. Anapaests -- XII. Lyric Iambs, Trochees, Cretics, and Bacchiacs -- XIII. Ionics and Choriambs -- XIV. Combinations of Lyric Meters -- XV. Epodes and Asynarteta -- XVI. Aeolic Meters -- XVII. Stichic and non-stichic Lyric Poetry -- XVIII. The Odes of Horace -- XIX. The Cantica of Plautus and Seneca -- XX. Later Developments.