Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each line by whether Romance metrics names it for its SYLLABLE count or for something else.
Groups: Named for its syllable count · Named for something else
- Alexandrine
- Octosílabo
- Pie quebrado
- Dodecasyllable
- Blank verse
- Hendecasyllable
Hints
- Most Romance line names are simply the number in Greek or Latin.
- One name describes a break in the stanza and one describes the absence of rhyme.
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Named for its syllable count: Octosílabo, Hendecasyllable, Alexandrine, Dodecasyllable
Named for something else: Pie quebrado, Blank verse
Why
Romance metrics counts syllables, so most of its line names are literally numbers, eight, eleven, twelve. The two exceptions name something else entirely: the pie quebrado is a broken foot within a stanza, and blank verse is defined by what it lacks. Naming by count is only possible because the count is fixed before the words are.
Practise Poetic Traditions I: the Medieval and Renaissance Lyric
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