No filling

When filling freedom is defined as the property of poetic meters , clocking in their next one each raising at will one or more (rarely more than three) cuts to accommodate, without following a regular pattern. The Knittel verse and the folk song stanza can be regarded as typical filling-free verse and stanza measures .

Verses without filling are to be distinguished from “ free verses ” and “ free rhythms ”. While these are actually not regulated metrically at all (only rhythmized ), verses without filling still obey a measure-counting metric scheme .

The freedom of filling can in a certain way be viewed as a misunderstanding or a myth, because the term arose when the metric schemes of Middle High German and Early New High German were interpreted according to the standards of New High German , with which the metric system of these earlier languages ​​was incompatible (see the article on weight languages ). For the modern understanding z. B. the Knittel verse or the folk song strophe, however, the principle of freedom of filling is a reality.

In rap it is sometimes considered a sport to use the freedom of filling to the limits of what can be presented without destroying the rhythm of the lifts (the flow).