Penthemimers
Penthemimeres ( Greek ; the Penthemimeres; Latin caesura semiquinaria "five half parts", namely half verse feet ) is in the ancient verse a caesura after the fifth half foot of a verse, i.e. in the third foot of the verse . An example is the main caesura in the hexameter , the caesura marked here with ‖:
- - ◡◡ . - ◡◡ . - ‖ ◡◡ . - ◡◡ . - ◡◡ . - ×
This caesura is also called "heroic masculine" (male, since the end of the colon is an elevation ), in contrast to the "feminine" caesura Katà tríton trochaíon . Other examples of penthemimers are
- the main caesura in the iambic trimeter :
- ◡ — .◡— ◡ ‖ -. ◡—. ◡—. ◡ ×
- the fixed diheresis of the dactylic pentameter :
- - ◡◡ . - ◡◡ . - ‖ —◡◡. —◡◡. ×
An example is the German replica of a hexameter by Johann Heinrich Voss :
- Sad, sad night! you black messenger of fate!
- —◡◡. —◡◡. - ‖ ◡. —◡. —◡◡. —◡
literature
- Sandro Boldrini : Prosody and Metrics of the Romans. Teubner, Stuttgart & Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-519-07443-5 , p. 92.
- Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , p. 167.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Heinrich Voß: Elegy in the evening after the twelfth night of September (1773)