Dubrovački barokni pjesnici i značenje stiha
Dubrovnik Baroque Poets and the Meaning of Verse

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the assumption that the metric standard of a poetry literature can best be seen in the works of minor poets, the author analyzes the texts by Oracije Mažibradić, Paskoje Primović, Vlaho Skvadri, and Jaketa Palmotić-Dionorić. Their works belong to various genres and span the period from the beginning to the second half of the 17th century. It is important to mention this fact because this was the time of great metric changes: the double rhymed dodecasyllabic line used to be the main type of verse, adaptable to all genres, but now it was superseded by the octosyllabic line. This change can be traced in the texts analyzed in this paper, and it is also evident that Croatian literature started stratifying into »high« and popular literature about that time. The metric patterns took part in this process with their traditional meanings but also with their capability to assume new ones.

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