Cadence (poetry)

A distinction is today - according to the number of syllables at the end of the last stressed syllable of - three forms:

• Male or dull cadence (EE ) degree with a stressed syllable, such as " Is the shape, fired clay "
• Female or sounding cadence (EE): completion with two syllables, such as " Walled up in the earth"
• Rich or sliding cadence: eg " painful, märzliche, Singing "

In the medieval metric, there are other distinctions which emanate from a fixed number of cycles of four bars per verse. As stroke is defined as the portion of any elevation ( stressed syllable, contrast reduction ) until the next uplift.

It consists of:

• Cadenza: The cadence fills the last bar.
• Sounding cadence: The cadence fills the penultimate and last bar.
• Dull cadence: The last bar is not linguistically realized.