Chris, having read through the example poems quickly, paying attention to the ones you point out, I'm still feeling muddled.
Bottom makes the point that the first two lines of the alcaic stanza are hendecasyllabics. My undying model of the hendecasyllabic line in English is Frost's "For Once, Then, Something," but in many of the model alcaics, I don't hear that pattern in the first two lines. This has to mean I don't yet have a feel for what substitutions are permitted.
For me, we need Alcaics 101. How many different ways can we construct one of these lines and still have it qualify as a hendecasyllabic line?
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