Cadence (verse teachings)

under cadence (lat. cadere fall) understand one in the verse-bound seal the conclusion of a verse.

One differentiates today - after the syllable number at the end of the last stressed syllable on two forms:

• male or blunt cadence: Conclusion with onestressed syllable, z. B. “Who rides so late by night and wind? ”
• female or sounding cadence: Conclusion with a stressed and a unbetonten Silbe´, z. B. “Celebration bricked in that ground connection”

in the medieval Metrik gives it still further distinctions, from a firmNumber of cycles from four clocks for each verse proceed. Clock one calls the section of an elevation (stressed syllable, contrast lowering) to before the next elevation.

It are differentiated:

• full cadence: The cadence fills the last clock.
• sounding cadence: The cadence fills the next to lastand last clock.
• blunt cadence: The last clock is linguistically not realized.

See also: Verse teachings, verse, Metrik, Reim

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