Prosodiac

Moreover, unto him [Archilochus], as firſt inventour, are attributed the Epodes, Tetrameter, Iambicks, Procritique and Proſodiacks; […]

Moreover, one of the most natural uses of verse would be to march by; and for this purpose the triple beat would not serve without a pause. This would lead us to the paroemiac or prosodiac, and to the well known theory of [Theodor] Bergk, or the slightly different theory of [Hermann] Usener.

Pers[ians] 694–696 = 700–702 may be regarded as consisting of two prosodiacs and a paroemiac. It is, however, better to scan the first two verses as ionic dimeters, retaining the paroemiac close, though a logaoedic rhythm […] often occurs at the end of a strophe. The assumption of ionics avoids the necessity of resolving the second arsis of the prosodiacs.

Prosodiacs normally start with double-short —◡◡— (d) and end with single-short —◡— (s).

The proſodiac nome was ſung in honour of Mars, and was, they ſay, invented by Olympus.

Some verses, for instance, bear much stronger marks of an original spondaic rhythm than others of the same number of feet. There seem, for instance, to have been prosodiac and paroemiac verses based on the spondee.

The specific characteristics of melic anapaests are: […] (6) The presence of catalectic and acatalectic (prosodiac) tripodies.

With a shorter prosodiac line which is then repeated, 1075 f., according to [James] Diggle’s colometry.

This is in very brief “the ingrained musicality” of Khusrau’s ghazals. His prosodiac finesse in succeeding to avoid even شکست روا is added to it.

Who cares that they pronounced things differently? Ancient Greek was a prosodiac language while modern Greek is not.

As regards the αυ diphthong, when I want to read it as two syllabes (today's speech is not prosodiac so it does not apply to modern greek^([sic])) I make it sound like aw, in any other case αβ or αφ as dictated by the modern greek^([sic]) grammar rules, however most Greeks pronounce β and φ with their upper teeth in contact with their low lip which I believe is wrong.