[Maryann Corbett]

I'm making good on my promise (threat?) to start a thread in which we revisit the discussions about alcaics that took place in the past and add our new thoughts, perhaps with additional examples.

If I use the search function, with "alcaic" and "alcaics" as the keywords and search the Mastery board, I find these threads:

http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=555

http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=556

And of course there's the recent discussion on the Horace thread from the Translation Bakeoff just ended:

http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=8367

I need to read the older threads over to see if they reveal more questions to me. But the question I have at the outset is simply this: What's the best way to compose new alcaics in English, so that readers know what you're doing and don't mistake your meter for something else? What are the most effective roadsigns?

I may not get back to this thread today, but I'll be very pleased if others decide to pick it up and run.