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Prosimetrum
A ''prosimetrum'' (plural ''prosimetra'') is a poetic composition which exploits a combination of prose (''prosa'') and verse (''metrum'');〔Braund, Susanna. "( Prosimetrum )". In Cancil, Hubert, and Helmuth Schneider, eds. ''Brill’s New Pauly''. Brill Online, 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2015.〕 in particular, it is a text composed in alternating segments of prose and verse.〔Brogan, T.V.F. "Prosimetrum". In Green et al., pp. 1115–1116.〕 It is widely found in Western and Eastern literature.〔 While narrative ''prosimetrum'' may encompass at one extreme a prose story with occasional verse interspersed, and at the other, verse with occasional prose explanations, in true ''prosimetrum'' the two forms are represented in more equal measure.〔Harris & Reichl, p. 11.〕 A distinction is sometimes drawn〔Hanson, Kristin, and Paul Kiparsky. "The Nature of Verse and Its Consequences for the Mixed Form". In Harris & Reichl, p. 36.〕 between texts in which verse is the dominant form and those in which prose dominates; there the terms ''prosimetrum'' and ''versiprose'' are applied respectively.
==Usage of term==
The term ''prosimetrum'' is first attested in the ''Rationes dictandi'' of Hugh of Bologna, in the early 12th century. Sources differ on the date, one suggesting around 1119,〔 another about 1130.〔Ricklin, Thomas. "Femmes-philosophie et hommes-animaux: essai d'une lecture satirique de la ''Consolatio philosophiae'' de Boèce". In ''Boèce ou la chaîne des savoirs: actes du Colloque international de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris, 8–12 juin 1999''. Louvain: Peeters, 2003. p. 131. ISBN 90-429-1250-2〕 Hugh divided metrical composition into three kinds: quantitative verse (''carmina''), verse based on syllable count and assonance (''rithmi''), and "the mixed form ... when a part is expressed in verse and a part in prose" (''prosimetrum'').〔Dronke, p. 2.〕 The derived adjective ''prosimetrical'' occurs in English as early as Thomas Blount’s ''Glossographia'' (1656) where it is defined as “consisting partly of Prose, partly of Meteer or Verse.” 〔Ziolkowski, Jan. "The Prosimetrum in the Classical Tradition," in Harris & Reichl, p. 48.〕
Works such as historical chronicles and annals, which quote poetry previously composed by other authors, are not generally regarded as "true" ''prosimetra''.〔Ziolkowski, pp. 55–56.〕 In the Old Norse-Icelandic tradition, however, vernacular histories and family sagas that quote verses by other authors are commonly accepted as ''prosimetra''.〔Ross, pp. 80–81.〕 Quoted or "inset" verses are a familiar feature of longer historical texts in the Old Irish and Middle Irish traditions as well.〔Mac Cana, Proinsias. "Prosimetrum in Insular Celtic Literature." In Harris & Reichl, pp. 110–111.〕 The role of such verse quotations within the prose narrative varies; they may be mined as historical source-material, cited as factual corroboration of an event or recited by a character as dialogue.〔〔O’Donoghue, pp 11–12.〕
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