Abecedarius
An Abecedarius (also: "the Abecedar"; Latin abecedarius , add versus : "ABC poem") is a poem in which the first letter of each verse or stanza is chosen according to the order of the alphabet - see also acrostic . Schematically it looks like this (with a mistaken Abecedarius):
- A ........................
- B ........................
- C ........................
- D ........................
- and so on.
Examples
In another form, the first letters of the words make up the alphabet. - One of the best-known Abecedaries is Psalm 119 , called by Luther ( Ps 119,1 LUT ) "the golden ABC" because in the original the first letters of all stanzas combined make up the Hebrew alphabet .
Another example is the first four Lamentations of Jeremiah . The first letters of the elaborate verses also represent the Hebrew alphabet.
In the present, a complete German Abecedarius has been written by Günter Nehm , among others . For his children's book “My great grandfather and I”, James Krüss wrote an inverted Abecedarius (“Zanthen's yacht Xanthippe was completely unpredictable, always drifting across the board ...”).
See also
literature
- Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 231). 8th, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-23108-5 .
Web links
- Robert Gernhardt: Old bucket, show loyalty. Old Reimer, shows remorse , book review Laura and Leopold loved each other lustfully. Impossible poems in the NZZ, 11/2002