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Galliambic
Galliambic,the metre of the Attis of Catullus , so called because it was the metre used by the Galli, or priests of Cybele, in their songs. It was imitated by Tennyson in his ‘Boadicea’:
So the Queen Boädicéa, standing loftily charioted,
Brandishing in her hand a dart and rolling glances lioness-like,
Yell'd and shriek'd between her daughters in her fierce volubility.
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