Paeon (verse doctrine)
The Päon (also Päan, Paion ; Greek παιών paiṓn, παιάν, paián , Latin paeon, paean ) is a verse foot consisting of one long and three short verse elements in ancient verse . Possible arrangements in the scheme are according to the position of the long syllable:
- —◡◡◡ (first peon)
- ◡ — ◡◡ (second peon)
- ◡◡ — ◡ (third peon)
- ◡◡◡— (fourth peon)
The name is derived, like that of the hymn song Paian, from an epithet of the god Apollon , whom the song served to honor.
The peon rarely appears in the replicas of ancient forms by German poets. Klopstock used the third form in his poem "Der Kamin". In the first four verses, the foot appears twice in the first and third verse (◡◡ — ◡ | ◡◡ — ◡):
- When the moor in the may with the flowers
- First smell awakened;
- First smell awakened;
- So greet him, delighted with the skin
- Branches of the Li̱ed Forest [...]
literature
- Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , p. 164.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden: Päon , Päan
- ↑ Wilfried Neumaier: Ancient rhythm theories: historical form and current substance . Amsterdam, 1989, p. 56
- ^ Wilhelm Pape: Concise dictionary of the Greek language , keyword παιάν
- ↑ Woordenboek Grieks / Nederlands , keyword παιᾱ́ν -ᾶνος en παιών -ῶνος, ὁ
- ^ Karl Ernst Georges: Extensive Latin-German concise dictionary , keywords Paeān, paeōn, paeōnicus
- ↑ Boris Tomaševskij, translated by Ulrich Werner: Theory of Literature, Poetics . 1985, p. 121.
- ↑ James W. Halporn, Martin Ostwald: Latin metrics . 5th, unchanged edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 29
- ^ Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock: Oden. Vol. 1, Leipzig 1798, pp. 301-305, online