Download or read book Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the Tragic Trimeter written by Nicholas Baechle and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is an interpretation of the choices the tragedians made in regard to certain forms of standardized variations in word order and prosody. Those choices were made in response to the competing demands of metrical constrain and the poets' sense of what was stylistically appropriate for tragic trimeters.