Hudibrastic verse
The hudibrastische verse (engl. Hudibrastic verse ) is a lyric form in the English seal of Samuel Butler in his satire Epic Hudibras was used (1663) and is named after this work.
Butler often used clumsy feminine rhymes with two syllables ( swear for - wherefore , fish up - bishop ), and thus deliberately violated a stylistic dictate of neoclassical poetry. Instead of the usual five-lobes , he used four- lobes . In terms of meter , rhyme scheme and effect, the Hudibrastic verse corresponds to the Rhenish hand-made speeches or the schnitzel banks . The first fourteen lines from Hudibras are given as an example :
When civil dudgeon first grew high,
And men fell out they knew not why?
When hard words, jealousies, and fears,
Set folks together by the ears,
And made them fight, like mad or drunk,
For Dame Religion, as for punk;
Whose honesty they all durst swear for,
Though not a man of them knew wherefore:
When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded
With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded,
And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick,
Was beat with fist, instead of a stick ;
Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling,
And out he rode a colonelling.
Butler's meter was subsequently imitated by numerous satirists, for example in Ebenezer Cooke's satirical verse epic The Sot-Weed Factor about the colony of Maryland.
literature
- Edward Ames Richards: Hudibras in the Burlesque Tradition. Dissertation Columbia University, New York 1937.
- LaRue Scott Catlett: An Odde Promiscuous Tone: A Study of the Prosody of Hudibras. Dissertation University of Wisconsin 1971.
- Ian Jack: Low Satire: Hudibras. In: ders .: Augustan Satire: Intention and Idiom in English Poetry, 1660-1750. 1952.
- Clarence L. Kulisheck: Swift's Octosyllabics and the Hudibras Tradition. In: The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 53 (1954).
- LJ Zillman: Hudibrastic Verses. In: Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman et al. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2012, ISBN 978-0-691-13334-8 , p. 640 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).