Responsion
Responsion ( Latin responsio "answer", "reply") denotes repetition and correspondence of corresponding elements in the poem in verse . In the field of ancient verse theory, the term was introduced by Paul Maas . In his investigation of Greek metrics, he distinguished between inner responsions (metric regularities within a verse; "repetition of metric elementary groups") and outer responsion (metric regularities between verses; "repetition of the metric whole"). According to Maas, the determination of such responsions present in the concrete work should form the sole basis of metric investigations.
At the lowest level, one speaks of the response of individual metric elements with their specific expression as length and shortness in the verse. For example, the elementum anceps (in the verse scheme notated as ×) responds with both length (-) and shortness (◡). This ambiguity of metric elements can also be referred to as metric ambivalence .
Erich Schmidt applied the term to correspondences between stanzas in Middle High German poetry and Meistersang . We speak with the frequently occurring there, about the rhyme scheme beyond sound correspondences between verses of Reimresponsionen or in the case of repetition of rhyming words ( identical rhyme ) of rhyming word Responsionen .
In rhetoric , responsion describes the ( antithetical ) answer to a self-posed question ("Should we capitulate? No, we will never ..." etc.).
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. 182f., 184.
- Günther Schweikle, Dieter Burdorf (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexicon Literature. Terms and definitions. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-01612-6 , p. 648.
- Christiaan Marie Jan Sicking: Greek verse teaching. (= Handbook of Classical Studies. Dept. 2, Part 4) Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-35252-9 , p. 17f.