Question
The speaker of a poem in this form claims, “the shore gleams in its natural stones / and birds sing sweetest without any art” in order to extol nakedness. A yellowed reproduction of a poem in this form begins the accordion poem Nox. A torrid love affair is described in a set of six poems in this form thought to be written by a “daughter of Servius,” known as the “garland of Sulpicia.” A line in this form notes, “my work rises in six beats, sinks in (*) five,” referring to this form’s pairing of dactylic hexameter and pentameter. A woman named Cynthia is the addressee of the first of four books of poetry in this form by Sextus Propertius. A Catullus poem using this form’s namesake couplets and addressed to the poet’s brother ends, “hail and farewell.” For 10 points, name this poetic form now used to mourn the dead. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 100% | 149.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 132.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 33% | 130.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 40% | 130.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 136.25 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 126.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 150.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 97.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | N | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 34.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Justine French | U[C]SD | Jason et al. | 42 | -5 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford | 45 | 15 |
Tony Chen | Toronto A | Waterloo Aspidistra | 48 | 15 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 50 | 15 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina A | 54 | -5 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley Past | 61 | -5 |
Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | South Carolina | 78 | 15 |
Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | LSE B | 95 | 10 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto B | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 97 | -5 |
Ian Tullis | Anderson et al. | SGV Ventures | 97 | -5 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Illinois Blue | 101 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont | ALCU | 107 | -5 |
Michelle Luo | Johns Creek | Lambert | 117 | -5 |
Luke Puttnam | Innovation Academy C | Georgia Tech C | 118 | -5 |
Albert Nyang | LSE A | Cambridge B | 118 | -5 |
Jacob Finley | Notre Dame | Illinois Orange | 123 | -5 |
Davis Johnson | Purdue B | SIUE | 130 | 10 |
Kevin Le | Carleton A | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 132 | 10 |
Nick Edwards | McGill A | Waterloo Cloze | 133 | -5 |
Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley Past | Berkeley A | 149 | 10 |
Josh Xu | ALCU | Claremont | 149 | 10 |
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech A | 150 | 10 |
Eric Chang | Virginia Tech C | Virginia Tech B | 150 | 10 |
Ryan Gomes | Florida Tech | USF | 150 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | UCF B | 150 | 0 |
Anna Barker | UCF B | Valencia | 150 | 10 |
Tiffany Zhou | UF A | UCF A | 150 | 10 |
Eve Maramba | UF C | UF B | 150 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | Toronto B | 150 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan A | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 150 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Waterloo Basic | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 150 | 10 |
Rayton Lin | Waterloo Cloze | McGill A | 150 | 10 |
Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech C | Innovation Academy C | 150 | 10 |
Sanjay Shanmuga Perumal | Lambert | Johns Creek | 150 | 10 |
Lucas Ardelean | Innovation Academy A | Milton | 150 | 0 |
Darren Kellis | Milton | Innovation Academy A | 150 | 10 |
Joanna Xiao | Georgia Tech D | Mississippi State | 150 | 10 |
Eric Yang | Purdue A | Chicago B | 150 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois Orange | Notre Dame | 150 | 10 |
Owen Iredale | Imperial A | Bristol | 150 | 10 |
Cormac Stephenson | Southampton | Imperial B | 150 | 10 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | LSE A | 150 | 10 |
Will Alston | SGV Ventures | Anderson et al. | 150 | 10 |
Jason Cheng | Jason et al. | U[C]SD | 150 | 0 |