Twelve-syllable
The twelve-syllable (l) er is a meter or verse with twelve syllables in the verse with the syllable-counting verse principle . Occasionally, especially in the context of ancient poetry, the term dodecasyllabus is also used. The dodecasyllabic verse of Middle Greek poetry must be distinguished from ancient forms - for example the Asclepiadeus minor .
The best-known twelve-syllable meter is the Alexandrian, which has dominated French poetry for a long time . Unlike the meter measures, which are usually named directly after the number of syllables (e.g. vers de dix syllabes for "ten-syllable"), the Alexandrian is consistently called vers alexandrin in French and not vers de douze syllabes .
Other twelve-syllable meter measures are the regular form of the verso de arte mayor in Spanish poetry and the dodecasilabo or doppio senario , ie "double six-syllable " in Italian poetry . All these forms have a caesura in the middle of the verse in common:
- Alexandrians : ×haben Pixabay × × × × × × × ×
- Verso de arte mayor and Dodecasillabo : ◡ — ◡◡ — ◡ ‖ ◡ — ◡◡ — ◡
literature
- W. Theodor Elwert : French metric. 4th edition. Hueber, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-19-003021-9 , p. 122 f.
- Walther Suchier : French verse theory on a historical basis (= collection of short textbooks on Romance languages and literatures. Vol. 14, ZDB -ID 517267-6 ). Niemayer, Tübingen 1952, pp. 63-70.