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A prosimetrum is a literary piece that is made up of alternating passages of prose and poetry. It is widely found in Western and Eastern literature.

Examples

• De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii by Martianus Capella
• Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
• Cosmographia by Bernard Silvestris
• De planctu naturae by Alain de Lille
• Aucassin et Nicolette
• Le Roman de Tristan en prose
• La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri
• Convivio by Dante Alighieri
• Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus
• Satyricon by Petronius
• The Kojiki
• The Tales of Ise
• Kagerō Nikki
• Genji Monogatari by Murasaki Shikibu
• Oku no Hosomichi by Matsuo Bashō
• One Thousand and One Nights
• Acallam na Senórach
• The Mahabharata

See also

• Haibun

Further reading

• Peter Dronke (1994). Verse with Prose from Petronius to Dante. ISBN 0-674-93475-X
• Joseph Harris, Karl Reichl (1997). Prosimetrum: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse. ISBN 0-85991-475-5

Notes

1. ^ Brogan, T.V.F. in Green, Roland et al. eds. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780691154916 p1115
2. Heinrichs, Wolfhart. "Prosimetrical Genres in Classical Arabic Literature" in Harris, Joseph and Karl Reichl, eds. Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse. D. S. Brewer, 1997. ISBN 9780859914758 p249
3. Jones, Samuel et al. Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 24/25, 2004 and 2005. Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780674035287 p87

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