Iambic four-lifter

The iambic Four Jacks (also rising four-stroke ) is in the prosody of languages with accentuating Versprinzip such as the German one of four iambic Versfüßen existing meter . After the iambic five-key word, it is one of the most common verse forms in these languages.

The scheme is in metric notation

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and in hypercatalectically extended form:

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The meter, which is not widely discussed in literature, owes its importance and dissemination to the fact that it is the meter of numerous stanzas that are important in literary history and popular up to modern times. These include:

• Ambrosian hymn verse
• Otfrid's strophe
• Vagant stanza
• Lindenschmid strophe
• Tail rhyming stanza
• Luther strophe

literature

• Ivo Braak : Poetics in a nutshell. 8th edition. Bornträger, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-443-03109-9 , pp. 114-116.
• AM Devine et al .: Tetrameter. 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. 1424 f ( limited previewhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DuKiC6IeFR2UC~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA1424~ double-sided%3D~LT%3Deingeschr%C3%A4nkte%20Vorschau~PUR%3D in Google book search).