Pherekrateus
In ancient metrics, the Pherekrateus is a seven-syllable Aeolian meter . In metric formula notation , it becomes withpherabbreviated. A distinction is made between the following two forms:
- 1. Pherekrateus (pher1): —◡◡ — ◡— ◡
- 2. Pherekrateus (pher2): ◡ ◡ —◡◡— ◡
The meter is named after the Attic comedy poet Pherekrates .
The Pherekrateus can be understood as a catalectic glyconeus . It appears as the third verse in the asclepiadic stanza , for example in Horace , or as the fourth verse in the glyconeic stanza , for example in Catullus . In Martianus Capella it is found monostitch .
If the "Pherekrateus" is generally spoken of, the 2nd Pherekrateus is usually meant.
In German poetry, both forms of the verse can be found in Friedrich Leopold Stolberg's lullaby to sing for my Agnes ; the first two verses of each stanza are 1. Pherekrateen, the third verse that recurs as a refrain through all stanzas is a 2. Pherekrateus. The first stanza:
Lovely
boy, I'll lull
you into slumber by singing,
boy, smile again!
Four-line stanzas with only 2nd pherekrateen are used by Josef Weinträger in a four-stanza ode . The first stanza:
Nevertheless: is not a person
happy to let go?
Under the shiver of the stranger
Whole, and as in a thicket
The Pherekrateus is often used in conjunction with other verses. For the poems Maigesang and An Daphne, Ludwig Hölty uses a pherecratic stanza corresponding to the glyconeic stanza (three glycones are followed by a pherekrateus) (three pherekratees are followed by a glyconeus). The first verse of An Daphne :
Rescue the languishing eyes,
Where the gods of love
gild their arrows,
Rescue the languishing eyes for me!
The comparison of the first with the fourth verse shows the close relationship between Glykoneus and Pherekrateus.
The Asclepiadic stanza was also used extensively in German Odendomie; it contains Pherekrateus as the third verse, as in the first stanza of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's well-known poem Der Zürchersee :
It is beautiful, Mother Nature, the splendor of your invention
Scattered in the hallways, a happy face more beautiful,
That
thinks once more of the great thought of your creation.
The Pherekrateus also appears as part of larger verses. The priapeus is composed of a glyconeus and a pherekrateus following it; the first verse by Friedrich Rückerts to J. von Hammer :
Recently on the blooming Rosenhag spoke with an important expression
"Spoke with an important expression" is the Pherekrateus. In the hexameter , the first half verse can take the form of a pherekrateus if the caesura lies between its light syllables in the three-syllable third foot ( Katà tríton trochaíon ); The first verse of Johann Wolfgang Goethe's 21st Venetian epigram :
The pilgrim wallet busily! And will he find the saint?
"Busy the pilgrim wallet!", The first half verse has the shape of a Pherekrateus.
literature
- Sandro Boldrini : Prosody and Metrics of the Romans. Teubner, Stuttgart & Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-519-07443-5 , p. 143.
- Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). Kröner, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-520-47901-X , p. 168.
- Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 608.
Web links
- Introduction to the basics of Roman metrics (Gottwein)