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. It is named for Gottfried Hermann, who first identified the phenomenon in his 1796 work, De metris poetarum graecorum et romanorum.
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. It is named for Gottfried Hermann, who first identified the phenomenon in his 1796 work, De metris poetarum graecorum et romanorum.
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