Fermata (verse doctrine)

Pause (of Italian fermare , 'stop ) referred to in the Verslehre the marking of the Versschlusses by a volume expansion .

If this strain to rhyme syllables , we speak with sung texts of the Middle Ages and the early modern period ( Meistersang , evangelical hymn ) from a Fermatenreim . However, the application and applicability of the term are uncertain or controversial.

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. 68.
• Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 264.
• Werner Kohlschmidt , Wolfgang Mohr (Hrsg.): Reallexikon der Deutschen Literaturgeschichte. Volume 3. De Gruyter 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-087956-8 , p. 418.