Prosody (Latin) were felt to be especially suited to this role. The Greek poet Archilochus was one of the main exponents of the iambic distich and he provided a model for Horace's Epodes 1-10. The following couplet forms the first two lines of Epode 7. Note that the first syllables in both lines ("Quo" and "ap") are in anceps and thus a spondee appears to have been substituted for an iamb in both the initial feet. Also "ti" in "scelesti" is long by nature and it too is in anceps; the third foot would otherwise be a tribrach (uuu) thanks to the
Paul Fleming (poet) contains many notable love-songs. Fleming wrote in Latin as well as in German, and his Latin poems were published in a single volume in 1863, edited by Johann Martin Lappenberg. Fleming has been called a man of "real poetic genius", "the only good poet in Germany during the Thirty Years' War", "possibly the greatest German lyric poet of the seventeenth century" and "the German Herrick". Günter Grass has called him "one of the major figures in German seventeenth-century literature". Fleming wrote the hymn in nine stanzas "" (In all that I do) on the melody of "" by Heinrich Isaac,