The middle foot "– u u –" is a choriambus, as a so-called choriambic nucleus is a defining element of Aeolic verse.
Longer metres are derived by Kiparsky from the iambic trimeter, for example, the hendecasyllable and lesser asclepiad: This switch of an iamb for a trochee or vice versa is known as anaclasis.
It begins with an address to Hymen, god of wedding ceremonies:[8] Catullus 34 is written in a similar metre, but with stanzas consisting of three glyconics + a pherecratean.
Catullus 17, addressed to a certain village which held a festival on a dangerously shaky bridge across a marsh, begins as follows: The poet Horace does not use glyconics on their own, but in combination with asclepiad lines (a kind of expanded glyconic) and sometimes also with pherecratean lines.
The first two syllables of the line (known as an "aeolic base") are often a trochee (– u) in Catullus, but are usually standardised to a spondee (– –) in Horace's version of the metre.