Formal Approaches to Poetry: Recent Developments in Metrics

Acknowledgements......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 9
1. Music and meter......Page 13
A modular metrics for folk verse......Page 15
2. Metricality......Page 59
What is “metricality”? English iambic pentameter......Page 61
3. English meter......Page 82
Generated metrical form and implied metrical form......Page 85
Anapests and anti-resolution......Page 101
Shakespeare’s lyric and dramatic metrical styles......Page 119
Longfellow’s long line......Page 143
4. Old Norse......Page 157
The rise of the quatrain in Germanic: musicality and word based rhythm in eddic meters......Page 159
5. Mora counting meters......Page 179
The function of pauses in metrical studies: acoustic evidence from Japanese verse......Page 181
Iambic meter in Somali......Page 201
6. Modelling statistical preferences......Page 217
Constraints, complexity, and the grammar of poetry......Page 219
Modelling the linguistics–poetics interface......Page 241
7. Russian meter......Page 259
Generative metrics and the comparative approach: Russian iambic tetrameter in a comparative perspective......Page 261
Structural dynamics in the Onegin stanza......Page 275
8. Classical and Roman metrics......Page 292
The ancient iambic trimeter: a disbalanced harmony......Page 295
Author index......Page 317
Subject and language index......Page 319
List of contributors......Page 321