Hypermeter
A Hyper meter ( Greek ὑπέρμετρος hyper metros excessive) even hypermetrischer verse, is a hyperkatalektischer verse , a the meter has border syllable whose auslautender vowel but by elision is deleted. Example:
iactemur, doceas; ignari hominumque locorumqu (e)
erramus ...
A hypermeter is relatively rare. For example, in Virgil's Georgica and in the Aeneid there are a total of 23 hypermeters to 2188 + 9896 verses, the frequency of hypermeters in Virgil is accordingly around 0.19%.
One of the same type is a departure metrics existing system analogous to the names pentameter , hexameter , etc. also called Hyper meters.
literature
- AT Cole: System. 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. 1407 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 361.
Individual evidence
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid I 332
- ^ GP Goold : Hypermeter and Elision in Virgil , in: JF Miller; C. Damon; KS Myers (ed.): Vertis in usum. Studies in Honor of Edward Courtney . Munich 2002, pp. 77-81. Goold considers the tradition to be corrupt for three of the 23 hypermeters; then the hypermeter rate at Virgil would be only 0.16%.