For what it's worth, I hear the Robinson, the Tennyson, the Clough, & the Stevenson on the linked Alcaics thread as actual alcaics. Mezey's "To the Americans," and Auden's elegy on Freud, excellent poems though they are, do not strike my ear as being in this measure. Which goes to show that for me at least it takes more than an 11-11-9-10 syllable count to have an alcaic. Maryann, besides Stephen's Horace on DG, I would study those four, if you're now itching to write English alcaics, as you seem to be. I assume you can hear there's more going on than just accentual tetrameter?
Chris
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