Bridge
In verse theory, a bridge denotes a position between two verse elements in a meter at which an incision caused by the end of a word (i.e. caesura or diheresis ) is very rare or undesirable or inadmissible. In metric notation , a bridge is marked by an arc over or between the relevant elements (⏜).
Well-known examples are in the ( Homeric ) hexameter :
- Hermannsche bridge according to the first short of the fourth Metrons , or according to the "fourth Trochäus " ( Greek κατὰ τέταρτον τροχαῖον Kata tétarton trochaíon ):
- - ◡◡ - ◡◡ - ◡◡ —◡⏜◡ — ◡◡— ×
- It is named after the Leipzig philologist Gottfried Hermann , who pointed out this metric law, but was already described by Johann Heinrich Voss before him . Iliad 9,394 provides an example of a turning point at this point (if one does not follow Aristarchus of Samothrace , but the reading of the manuscripts).
- Bucolic bridge after the second length with spondeus in the fourth meter:
- - ◡◡ - ◡◡ - ◡◡ ——⏜ — ◡◡— ×
- The name refers to the bucolic diheresis (- ◡◡ - ◡◡ - ◡◡ - ◡◡ ‖ —◡◡— ×) after the end of the fourth meter, where the end of a word is frequent.
Both rules together show that a notch after the second syllable of the fourth meter is undesirable.
Middle heresis after the end of the third meter is also considered undesirable :
- - ◡◡ - ◡◡ - ◡◡ ⏜— ◡◡ —◡◡— ×
literature
- Bernhard Zimmermann, Anne Schlichtmann: Handbook of the Greek literature of antiquity. Vol. 1: The literature of the archaic and classical times. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-57673-7 , p. 18.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gottfried Hermann: De metris poetarum graecorum et romanorum. Leipzig 1796, p. 273.
- ^ Rudolf Kassel: Small writings. de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1991, ISBN 3-11-012757-1 , pp. 106f.