Abstract
SummaryThis paper presents a method for measuring links between metre and syntax in the way three poets (Catullus, Horatius and Virgil) compose their hexameters. Based on the lemmatized files of LaSLa (Liēge) and on Tesniere’s dependency syntax, it aims to observe phenomena like (non-)coincidence of end of syntagm and end of verse line, syntactical consistency of the hexameter and so on. The test objects are: the place where sentences begin and end, syntactical connexions, syntagms exceeding the length of the line. It shows that poets like Catullus and Horatius don’t behave in the same way, and that the latter avoids less than the former this non-coincidence of meter and syntax: this is connected with a more “prosaic” nature of the writing of the Sermones.
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