Orphan
As an orphan , orphan line or rhyme orphan in is Verslehre a rhyming loose verse referred to a series of rhymed verses. In the rhyme scheme this is often withx or wwritten down. The term comes from the terminology of the early New High German Meistersang .
Orphans are mainly found in three-line stanzas , which are then referred to as orphan tzine . Examples are the last stanza of a series of tercine stanzas , the ritornello and the end of the Middle High German canzone stanza .
As an example, the first stanza of a poem by Joseph Victor von Scheffel from the Allgemeine Deutsche Kommersbuch with the rhyme scheme[aabbx]:
When the Romans got naughty ,
they moved to the north of Germany.
The Field Marshal General,
Herr Quinctilius Varus, rode in
front with the sound of a trumpet .
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. 259 f.
- Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. Special edition of the 8th, improved and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 895.
Individual evidence
- ^ Joseph Victor von Scheffel: Teutoburg battle. In: Friedrich Silcher , Friedrich Erk (Hrsg.): General German Kommersbuch . 55th-58th Edition. Schauenburg, Lahr o. J. (ca.1900), No. 626, p. 565.