List of metric terms
The following list includes terms in verse that are not used to designate specific metrical forms. For these see:
Terms
- Acephaly , acephalic: absence of a metric element at the beginning of a verse
- Anaclasis : interchanging two consecutive metric elements (especially with Ionikus )
- Antepaenultima (syllaba) : penultimate syllable or syllable position
- Aeolian base : first two syllables in aeolian meter , with which any combination of shortness and length is possible
- Apheresis : in the Latin prosody, an initial vowel is omitted
- Arsis : "lifting"; Shorter part of the foot of the verse in the Greek metric, from late antiquity the arsis corresponds to the elevation of the voice, i.e. the stressed part
- Brevis in longo : Permission to use elementum longum with a short syllable on the sender
- Diaeresis : the meter demanded word end between two Versfüßen ; see. caesura
- Elementum anceps : Metric element that can be realized using a short, two short or long syllable
- Elision : omission of the first vowel when two vowels meet at the word boundary ; see. Synalophytes
- Hephthemimeres : caesura after seven half feet
- Hiat : meeting of two vowels at the word boundary without elision or synalophy occurring
- Iktus : beat in the ancient metrics, Diplomatic proper elevation in the accent metric
- Catalexes , catalectical: meter shortened by a metric element at the end
- Colon : unit of division between the smaller comma and the larger period
- Comma : short section of a verse
- Metric element : the smallest part of a metric scheme that can be realized using long, short or two short syllables
- Metron , meter: part of a verse consisting of one or two feet
- Meter : metric scheme of a verse
- Paenultima (syllaba) : penultimate syllable or syllable position
- Penthemimeres : caesura after five half feet
- Period : structural unit comprising several kola or verse
- Prosody : the set of rules and phenomena relating to the verbal implementation of verses ( quantity , blurring , aspiration , etc.)
- Skansion : Determination of the meter and corresponding presentation
- engraved , monostitched: metric scheme with continuous repetition of the same meter
- Synaloiphe : blending of a final vowel with the initial of the following word to form a diphthong ; see. elision
- Synaphy : seamless transition between two lines of verse
- Synizesis : blending of two vowels inside a word to form a syllable
- Thesis : "Lowering"; longer part of the foot of the verse in the Greek metric, from late antiquity the arsis corresponds to the lowering of the voice, i.e. the unstressed part
- Verse element : smallest part of a metric scheme or its realization in verse
- Versfuß : smallest (repeating) rhythmic unit in meter
- Meter : the metric scheme on which the verse is based
- Caesura : the end of a word as part of a metric scheme, especially inside a verse foot; see. Diheresis