Kata metron

Kata metron ( ancient Greek "according to one measure") denotes in ancient verse such meter measures that consist of the repetition of metrically equal units. A distinction is made according to the number of these units ( meters ):

• Monometer (1 meter)
• Dimeter (2 meters)
• Trimeter (3 meters)
• Tetrameter (4 meters)
• Pentameters (5 meters)
• Hexameter (6 meters)

Verses (for example Aeolian ) that cannot be broken down into similar units were called ou kata metron in ancient theory .

literature

• Dieter Burdorf, Christoph Fasbender, Burkhard Moennighoff (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexicon literature. Terms and definitions. 3. Edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-01612-6 , p. 376.
• JW Halporn, TVF Brogan: Metron. 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. 878 ( limited previewhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DuKiC6IeFR2UC~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA878~ double-sided%3D~LT%3Deingeschr%C3%A4nkte%20Vorschau~PUR%3D in Google Book Search).