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Robert Frost: Rhythmical Structure of His Iambic Tetrameter

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Marina Tarlinskaja
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 299–323.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578443
Published: 01 September 2023
...Marina Tarlinskaja Abstract This essay researches how Robert Frost's poems “are made.” It offers new methodologies of analyzing stressing, the main constituent of poetic rhythm. Frost's iambic tetrameter is the material of analysis. The formula of entropy is used to measure the rhythmical diversity...
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What Rhymes with Misogyny ? Rossetti, Dickinson, and Plath at Rhyme's Limit

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Chris Townsend
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 347–378.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578471
Published: 01 September 2023
...Chris Townsend Abstract Historical poetics often seeks to read “from the inside out,” to understand form's history by starting with the features of form themselves. In that sense, it is uniquely placed to understand the intersections of poetics and politics, and to uncover the places where rhythmic...
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Free Verse and Prose Rhythm

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J. H. Crone
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 325–346.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578457
Published: 01 September 2023
... to include any type of parallelism. Like Cooper, I contest persisting prosodic theories that free verse and prose poetry are largely written in the kind of prose rhythm that is used in everyday speech. I extend Cooper's analysis from a question of generic boundaries to one of rhythmic structure by showing...
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Poetic Rhythm—Structure and Performance, An Empirical Study in Cognitive Poetics

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Idit Nov
Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 473–474.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-21-2-473
Published: 01 June 2000
... Poetics. Berne: Peter Lang AG, European Academic Publishers, pp. This book is an instrumental investigation of a theory of rhythmical perfor- mance of poetry, originally propounded speculatively in the author’s book, Perception...
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How Not to Introduce Blues Prosody:: Langston Hughes and the Rhythms of the African American Vernacular Tradition

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Michael Skansgaard
Poetics Today (2019) 40 (4): 645–681.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-7739071
Published: 01 December 2019
... . Rhythmic Phrasing in English Verse . London : Longman . Dee Ruby Davis Ossie . 1969 . The Poetry of Langston Hughes . Caedmon TC 1272, 33-rpm record . Dell Franc ois Halle John . 2009 . “ Comparing Musical Textsetting in French and English Songs .” In Towards a Typology...
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The Case for the English Dolnik; Or, How Not to Introduce Prosody

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Derek Attridge
Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 1–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-1505522
Published: 01 March 2012
... to the study of verse) to understand and appreciate the rhythmic dimension of at least a large majority of the poems in the anthology. It seems pertinent to ask, then, “To what extent does Stallworthy’s account satisfy this expectation?”3 I am posing this question not because the Norton view...
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Rhythm: Form and Dispossession Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics

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Ewan James Jones
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 487–494.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578541
Published: 01 September 2023
... of rhythmical surrender: Blanchot, Levinas, Merleau-Pointy, Heidegger, Serres. These in turn enable a remarkably broad treatment of poetry from across time and space: three compressed chapters range from ancient Greece to the early modern Iberian Peninsula to twentieth-century African verse. Enrhythment ties...
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Benjamin Harshav (Hrushovski): A Personal Retrospect

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Ziva Ben-Porat
Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 245–251.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-22-1-245
Published: 01 March 2001
... time ago, was finally pub- Ben-Porat • Benjamin Harshav: A Personal Retrospect 247 lished. Harshav prefaces the anthology poems with a discussion of meter in relation to language and with a restatement of the three major functions that meter fulfills in poetry: rhythmical...
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Some Cognitive Foundations of “Cultural Programs”

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Reuven Tsur
Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 63–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-23-1-63
Published: 01 March 2002
... of Meter (The Hague: Mouton). Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1951 “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge , edited by Donald A. Stauffer, 6 -24 (New York: Modern Library College Editions). Cooper, C. W., and L. B. Meyer 1960 The Rhythmic Structure of Music...
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Poetic History between Reference and Materiality

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 457–461.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-21-2-457
Published: 01 June 2000
... pattern, since the disappearance of a regu- lar rhythmic organization casts doubt on the possibility of defining the ‘‘formal’’ or conventional dimension of poetry, namely, that component of the double pattern which is supposed...
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Toward a Theory of Poetic License: Lyric Enchantment and Embarrassment

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Klas Molde
Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 561–593.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-8720071
Published: 01 December 2020
... restricted to any particular form or set of forms that its form or ostensible formlessness cannot help but have significance. This allows for virtually endless variations of metric-rhythmic enchantment but also for disenchantment and embarrassment. As opposed to rhythm in general, meter is an avowedly...
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A Concert of Paintings: “Musical Ekphrasis” in the Twentieth Century

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Siglind Bruhn
Poetics Today (2001) 22 (3): 551–605.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-22-3-551
Published: 01 September 2001
..., used throughout his Lyrical Suite to wink behind his wife’s back to Hanna Fuchs), and other cryptographic messages; . the suggestive power of rhythmic and metric signifiers (lilting triple time for lullabies and romance songs, double-dotted notes to suggest military prowess, etc...
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Balzac: Une poétique du roman

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Kevin C. Smith
Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 469–470.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-21-2-469
Published: 01 June 2000
...:2 / sheet 206 of 214 tutely points out, its own rhythmic and rhetorical strategies. In the section’s beautifully written concluding essay, ‘‘L’inouï balzacien Catherine Nesci explores how musical ‘‘language’’ constitutes both a guide to and a meta...
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Poetics Today Style Guide

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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 565–577.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-26-3-565
Published: 01 September 2005
... or BBBBB) Richard Cureton’s Rhythmic Phrasing in English Verse (Cureton 1992; RPEV ) Use full capitals (without periods) for time and period designations. circa 750–400 BCE Abbreviations of Latin terms such as ibid., cf., i.e., et al., ca., etc. are roman- ized and appear only in parenthetical...
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Bakhtin on Poetry

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Michael Eskin
Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 379–391.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-21-2-379
Published: 01 June 2000
... such poetic modes as the lyric, the encomial ode, etc., that is, personalized and/or highly organized (metrically, rhythmically, phonologically) modes of poetic speech, whose language saliently differs from the languages...
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Poetics of Cohabitation: An Ecosemiotic Theory of Oral Poiesis

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Ignasi Ribó
Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 549–581.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-9780431
Published: 01 September 2022
... association or assemblage of these systems of organisms-in-their-own-worlds into higher-order collectives. We should not forget, in any case, that it is their capacity to mean something, and not just to create a shared emotional and rhythmic experience during performance, that distinguishes songs from...
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Metrical Hybridization: Prosodic Ambiguities As a Form of Social Dialogue

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Vered Shemtov
Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 65–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-22-1-65
Published: 01 March 2001
... rhythmical ambiguity was proposed by Harshav in his article ‘‘On Free Rhythm in Modern Poetry’’ The understanding of prosodic choices as determined by his- torical and social context more even than by linguistic factors has suggested itself in almost 68 Poetics Today 22:1 is an example of a concept...
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Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust

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Trina Marmarelli
Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 551–554.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-26-3-551
Published: 01 September 2005
... the specificity of Dickinson’s practice, including disclosure (when lines are ‘‘rhythmically complete but syntactically unfinished’’ [35]) and dispropor- tional quatrains in which odd lines can outmeasure rhyme lines by as many as four downbeats’’ [39 Equally valuable is Marshall Brown’s ‘‘Negative Poetics...
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Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats

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Tamar Yacobi
Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 554–556.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-26-3-554
Published: 01 September 2005
... the specificity of Dickinson’s practice, including disclosure (when lines are ‘‘rhythmically complete but syntactically unfinished’’ [35]) and dispropor- tional quatrains in which odd lines can outmeasure rhyme lines by as many as four downbeats’’ [39 Equally valuable is Marshall Brown’s ‘‘Negative Poetics...
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Poetry: The Basics

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Tamar Yacobi
Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 557–558.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-26-3-557
Published: 01 September 2005
... the specificity of Dickinson’s practice, including disclosure (when lines are ‘‘rhythmically complete but syntactically unfinished’’ [35]) and dispropor- tional quatrains in which odd lines can outmeasure rhyme lines by as many as four downbeats’’ [39 Equally valuable is Marshall Brown’s ‘‘Negative Poetics...
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