Monopody
A Monopodie ( Greek. "Einzelfuß") is in the Verslehre one of a metrical foot existing metric unit.
In connection with the ancient metron , monopody designates verse feet like the dactyl , in which the verse foot corresponds to the meter. These feet are called monopodic . With the verse feet iambus , trochaeus and anapest, however, the meter consists of two verse feet and one speaks of dipody or dipodic verse feet. Therefore a dactylic hexameter (“hexa-” = six) consists of six dactyls, an iambic trimeter (“tri-” = three) but also of six feet (3 meters with 2 iambi each).
If monopody denotes a meter , i.e. a verse consists of only one foot of the verse, one speaks of metrical monopody . This rarely occurs, for example, in a closing verse. A well-known example can be found as the second verse in Goethe's poem Wanderer's Night Song :
- Above all peaks
- is peace [...]
In metric notation , the monopody is indicated by the superscript number 1 after the abbreviation of the foot of the verse. In the example, yes 1 for the iambic monopody.
Finally, we speak in the main and side elevations distinctive accent oriented metric of rhythmic Monopodie when the elevations are all equivalent in a series of Versfüßen, in contrast to the rhythmic dipody that results when major and minor uplift alternate regularly.
literature
- Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , pp. 152f.
- Günther Schweikle, Dieter Burdorf (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexicon Literature. Terms and definitions. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-01612-6 , p. 512.