Ten lines
A more than ten lines (also Deka tihon ) is in the Verslehre a ten verses existing Strophen- or a poem . Specific forms that should be mentioned are málaháttr in Old Norse, the decime in Spanish and the dizain in French poetry.
Examples
- Rhyme scheme ababccdeed:
- At Aachen in its imperial splendor,
- In the ancient hall,
- Sat King Rudolf's holy power
- At the festive coronation meal.
- The food was carried by the Count Palatine of the Rhine,
- The Bohemian gave the sparkling wine,
- And all the voters, the seven
- As the chorus of stars stands around the sun,
- Busy around the rulers of the world
- To exercise the dignity of office.
- (Friedrich Schiller, The Count of Habsburg)
- Rhyme scheme ababcdecde:
- My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
- My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
- Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
- One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
- Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
- But being too happy in thine happiness,
- That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
- In some melodious plot
- Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
- Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
- (John Keats, Ode to a nightingale)
literature
- Horst Joachim Frank : Handbook of the German strophic forms. 2nd Edition. Francke, Tübingen & Basel 1993, ISBN 3-7720-2221-9 , pp. 691-715.
- Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , pp. 40 f ..
- 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. 469–474.