heterometric

In verse theory , the term heterometric is used to describe stanza forms in which the verses have at least two different meter measures . Known example is composed of a dactylic hexameter and a dactylic pentameter existing elegiac couplet .

The opposite of heterometric is isometric . Here all the verses have the same meter. Examples are the pair rhyme strophe or the stanza .

More generally, isometric or heterometric denotes forms of metric similarity or dissimilarity on the respective level; an isometric poem consists of similar stanzas, an isometric verse of similar feet , etc.

Occasionally, the same number of syllables in rhyming words is called isometry .

literature

• Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 383, sv Isometry .