Strophe

One verse ( verse from Ancient Greek στροφή, turn '; particular: dance phrase of the chorus, sung during the dance song ') is a section of a lyric text. Originally ( in Greek drama) designated stanza changing the direction of movement during a round dance and the case put forward singing.

In the Middle High German poetry was used for the term verse the expression daz liet. The Mastersingers the names piece, edifices, or decade of verse usual ( verse today in the hymn ) were. Only in the 17th century by Martin Opitz the term verse in the German art theory a.

We speak today of verses when certain common characteristics are present: verse number, Verslänge (which can alternate quite; deviations are optionally hold in the form of analysis and explain ), meter, rhyme scheme ( here referred to the rhyme ). In the absence of these common features, it is better to speak of sections of a poem. A sequence of identical built verses, a verse number, a poem or a cycle form. In rhyming text make certain rhyme Follow the construction of the verses.

Stanzas patterns

  • Ancient verse forms couplet
  • Alcaic verse
  • Asklepiadeische verse
  • Sapphic stanza
  • Glykoneische verse
  • Chain: means the long line formed by two short lines
  • Edda stanzas Fornyrðislag Málaháttr
  • Galdralag
  • Dróttkvætt Tøglag
  • Hrynhent
  • Haðarlag
  • Nibelungen stanza and stanza Kurenberg
  • Hildebrandston, Heunenweise and Nibelungenvers
  • Kudrunstrophe
  • Titurelstrophe
  • Chant royal
  • Contrerime
  • Huitain
  • Canzone stanza, see canzone
  • Tercet
  • Ritornello
  • Sestet
  • Punch Nonarime
  • Quintilla
  • Siziliane
  • Spenserstrophe, see Edmund Spenser
  • Ghaselstrophe, see Ghasel
  • Haiku verse, see Haiku
  • Freislighe
  • Sonnet
  • Triolett
  • Lira ( verse )
  • Pantum
  • Englyn
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