After prosodies, the second big subsystem is the syntactic one.
Any serious metrical analysis cannot do without words
classification: as for any language, we must distinguish between
the purely graphical notion of word and its linguistic reality.
For instance, nobody would ever extract as full “words”
appositives like “a”, “in”, “the” from the sentence “a dog barks
in the house”: here the true words are rather “a dog”, “barks”
and “in the house”, and we thus have only 2 true wordends. As
for metrics, this means that not only word types define true and
false (i.e. purely graphical) wordends, but that several
phenomena (e.g. accent, elision, sentence position, etc.) are
strictly related to them. Thus, for Greek we deal with words
classification by distinguishing among the so-called lexical
words (the “full” semantic words) and the crucial class of
appositives, which usually have higher textual frequency and a
very small size. They in turn include words with and without
accent (clitics), which finally part into