Thread 24575277 - /lit/

Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:20:44 AM No.24575277
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>english has iambic pentameter
>french has alexandrine
>spanish has romance
>italian has the hendecasyllable
>greek has dactylic hexameter and iambic trimeter
What does german have? knittelvers?
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:21:57 AM No.24575279
They got eepen-gloopen shleepen schlobben. Everyone uses Esperanto these days so who cares.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 4:07:51 PM No.24575770
Iambic pentameter
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:50:30 PM No.24576898
pepe tiresome
pepe tiresome
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I don't know nor do I care to know what iambic pentameter is. In fact my brain started to analyze the latin roots of the words and deduce what it is and I actively blocked my brain from doing that with meditation techniques. Such is my desire not to know about the gay shit you are talking about.
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:55:34 PM No.24576916
>>24576898
Huh? every English speaker over the age of thirteen knows what iambic pentameter is. Also
>latin roots
lol
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 12:53:02 AM No.24577052
>>24575277 (OP)
Tapping into my classical music knowledge for this one:

>Goethe / Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade
Meine Ruh ist hin,
Mein Herz ist schwer,
Ich finde sie nimmer
Und nimmermehr.

2 stressed syllables per line, alternating anapests and iambs. ABCB.

>Goethe / Schubert: Erlkönig
Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?
Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind:
Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm,
Er fasst ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm.

4 stressed syllables per line, alternating anapests and iambs. AABB.

>Rückert / Schubert: Du bist die Ruh'
Du bist die Ruh,
Der Friede mild,
Die Sehnsucht du,
Und was sie stillt.

s L s L

Iambic dimeter. ABAB.

>Schubart / Schubert: Die Forelle
In einem Bächlein helle,
Da schoß in froher Eil
Die launische Forelle
Vorüber wie ein Pfeil.

s L s L s L s
s L s L s L

Similar to common meter, but with 1 less syllable. ABAB.

>Heine / Schumann: Ich grolle nicht
Ich grolle nicht, und wenn das Herz auch bricht,
Ewig verlor’nes Lieb! ich grolle nicht.
Wie du auch strahlst in Diamantenpracht,
Es fällt kein Strahl in deines Herzens Nacht.

s L s L s L s L s L

iambic pentameter, just like Shakespeare. AABB.

>anything by Mahler:
Mahler wrote his own texts for his lieder so he kinda just did whatever
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 3:11:31 AM No.24577374
>>24575277 (OP)
the nibelungenlied uses common meter