Diheresis
A diheresis (also diaeresis ; Greek διαίρεσις dihairesis , separation ') describes in the metric an incision (caused by the end of a word) that falls between two meters . Incisions within a meter are called caesuras , but sometimes caesura is also used as a general term for incisions in verse, the diheresis is then a special caesura. In metric notation , the diheresis is marked with ‖, positions with frequent end of words are also indicated with ́.
Dihereses (as well as caesuras) serve the rhythmic structure of the verse. In some ancient and Roman poetic meters are prescribed Dihäresen at certain Versstellen, for example in pentameter and Alexandrians , with others such as the hexameter they occur regularly. A diheresis established for the meter is also known as an incision .
The bucolic diheresis after the fourth dactyl in the hexameter is particularly well known :
- ◡◡ - ◡◡ - ◡◡ - ◡◡ ‖ —◡◡— ×
It is so named because it is used particularly frequently in bucolic poetry and is considered characteristic of it. The resulting second part of the hexameter then has the metric form of an adonic verse .
Latin examples:
- nos patriam fugimus; do, Tityre, ‖ lentus in umbra
- ite domum saturae, uenit Hesperos, ‖ ite capellae.
- In nova fert animus mutatas ‖ dicere formas
German-language poetry:
- You see wherever you look ‖ only vanity on earth.
literature
- Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , p. 42.
- Günther Schweikle, Dieter Burdorf (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexicon Literature. Terms and definitions. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-01612-6 , p. 158.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Virgil , Eclogae 1, 4
- ^ Virgil, Eclogae 10, 77
- ^ Ovid , Metamorphoses 1, 1
- ↑ Andreas Gryphius , It's all vain