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Thus his great metre, the Alcaic, has a character of stateliness and majesty in addition to the energy and impetus originally imparted to it by Alcaeus.

He went on to speak of his “Experiments in Quantity,” and in particular of the Alcaic Ode to Milton, beginning: O mighty-mouth’d inventor of harmonies.

The 120th Psalm is in Alcaics, and, I think, very successful, considering the difficulty of the metre.

Even Alcaics, unceremoniously handled by a shifting of the accent, which is violent disregard of quantity, yield like results.

And let me acknowledge that these contentions are perfectly true; just as it is perfectly true that fur coats are much warmer than Alcaics.