Seven liner
A seven Zeiler (also septet ) is in the Verslehre a seven verses existing Strophen- or a poem . Specific forms that should be mentioned are the Rhyme royal in English and the Seguidilla in Spanish literature.
Examples
Rhyme scheme aabcccb:
- Cante una chata de Provènça.
- Dins leis amors de sa jovènça,
- A travès de la Crau, vèrs la mar, dins lei blats,
- Umble escolan dah grand Omèra,
- Ieu la vòle seguir. Come èra
- Rèn qu'una chata de la tèrra,
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En fòra de la Crau se n'es gaire parlat
- (Frédéric Mistral, Mirèio)
Rhyme scheme ababbcc (Rhyme royal):
- Look westward o'er the steaming rain-washed slopes,
- Now satisfied with sunshine, and behold
- Those lustrous clouds, as glorious as our hopes,
- Softened with feathery fleece of downy gold,
- In all fantastic, huddled shapes uprolled,
- Floating like dreams, and melting silently,
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In the blue upper regions of pure sky.
- (Emma Lazarus, Longing)
Rhyme scheme ababbaa:
- This is a spray the Bird clung to,
- Making it blossom with pleasure,
- Ere the high tree-top she jump to,
- Fit for her nest and her treasure.
- Oh, what a hope beyond measure
- What the poor spray's, which the flying feet hung to,
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So to be singled out, built in, and sung to!
- (Robert Browning, Misconceptions)
Rhyming scheme abbaacc:
- Sneaked to Dionys the tyrant
- Damon, the dagger in the robe:
- The captors beat him in gang,
- “What did you want with the dagger? speak! "
- The angry replies darkly.
- "Free the city from the tyrant!"
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"You should regret that on the cross."
- (Friedrich Schiller, The Guarantee)
literature
- Horst Joachim Frank : Handbook of the German strophic forms. 2nd Edition. Francke, Tübingen & Basel 1993, ISBN 3-7720-2221-9 , pp. 525-556.
- Fritz Schlawe: The German stanza forms. Systematic-chronological register of German poetry 1600–1950. Repertories on the history of German literature, Vol. 5. Metzler, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-476-00243-8 , pp. 432-438.
- The seven-line stanza in German literature by EF Kossmann, Martinus Nijhoff, Haag 1923.