archilochian

from The Century Dictionary.

• Pertaining to Archilochus, a Greek poet of Paros, noted for the bitterness and severity of his satire.
• Severe; ill-natured: as, Archilochian bitterness.
• In ancient prosody, noting four stanzas— A dactylic hexameter alternating with a penthemim (called a lesser Archilochian) or
• with an iambelegus.
• An iambic trimeter alternating with an elegiambus.
• A verse consisting of four dactyls and three trochees (called a greater Archilochian) alternating with an iambic trimeter catalectic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus.