Alcmanian verse refers to the dactylic tetrameter in Greek and Latin poetry.
The final syllable of each line in the above fragment counts as short and brevis in longo is not observed.
Later Latin poets use the dactylic tetrameter a priore as the second verse of the Alcmanian strophe.
For example, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy I.m.3: Ausonius uses couplets of a dactylic tetrameter a priore followed by a hemiepes in Parentalia[usurped] 25: The term "Alcmanian" is sometimes applied to modern English dactylic tetrameters (e.g. Robert Southey's "Soldier's Wife": "Wild-visaged Wanderer, ah, for thy heavy chance!
"), or to poems (e.g. in German) that strictly imitate Horace's meters.