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In the prosody of Greek dactylic hexameter poetry, Hermann's Bridge is the tendency to avoid a word break between the two shorts of the fourth foot.[1][2] It is named for Gottfried Hermann, who first identified the phenomenon in his 1796 work, De metris poetarum graecorum et romanorum[3].
References
[edit]- ^ West, Martin (1982). Greek Metre. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 38n.18.
- ^ Schein, Seth (2015). Homeric Epic and its Reception: Interpretive Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 93–116. ISBN 9780199589418.
- ^ Hermann, Gottfried (1796). De metris poetarum graecorum et romanorum (in Latin). Leipzig: G. Fleischer. pp. 273–74.