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Meter
- iambic trimeters
Subject
- Oedipus and suppliants
- Oedipus and Creon
Meter
- lyric
Subject
- the plague
Meter
- iambic trimeters
Subject
- Oedipus' proclamation
- Oedipus and Teiresias
Meter
- lyric
Subject
- speculation regarding identity of Laius' unknown murderer
- anxiety regarding Teiresias' assertions
Meter
- 513-648: iambic trimeters
- 649-696: epirrhematic strophe and antistrophe [with the exception of 650 and 680, the characters (Oedipus, Jocasta, Creon) speak their lines while a number of the chorus' lines are sung or chanted]
- 697-862: iambic trimeters
Subject
- Oedipus and Creon
- intervention of Jocasta and chorus
- Oedipus and Jocasta
Meter
- lyric
Subject
- reflections regarding nature of nomoi and validity of oracles
Meter
- iambic trimeters
Subject
- Jocasta, Oedipus, and the Corinthian messenger
Meter
- lyric meters
Subject
- celebration of Oedipus' rescue on Mt. Cithaeron
- speculation regarding his parentage
Meter
- iambic trimeters
Subject
- Oedipus interrogates the Theban shepherd and discovers the secret of his birth
Meter
- lyric
Subject
- lament for Oedipus' fate
Meter
- 1223-1296: iambic trimeters
- 1296-1312: lyric anapaests
- 1312-1336: epirrhematic passage (Oedipus sings in lyric meters, the choryphaeus responds in iambic trimeters [except for lines 1336 and 1356, which are sung])
- 1367-1514: iambic trimeters
- 1515-1530: trochaic tetrameters
Subject
- messenger's report of events within the palace
- lament between Oedipus and chorus
- Oedipus and Creon
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