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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 325–346.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... Since i-chains differ from meters in that they are short stress patterns that do not conform to an overall metrical scheme, the scansion of the encyclopedia article features unorganized segments of trochees, iambs, anapests, and other short stress patterns. My study therefore demonstrates...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (4): 645–681.
Published: 01 December 2019
.../03335372-7739071 q 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics Hughes and Sterling Brown.1 This gap in prosodic scholarship has three primary causes: (1) Most scansional systems (e.g., Attridge 1982; Cureton 1992) have been developed to explain canonical Anglo-American verse forms. There is still...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 487–494.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to the imagism or rougher metrics of H. D. or Mina Loy; and the residual focus upon foot-based prosody and the practice of scansion in Sterling Brown, James Weldon Johnson, and other authors of what Glaser—following several of those authors—insists on calling the New Negro Renaissance. This brief sketch...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2012
...  / |x / | x  /| Nou goth sonne under tre— The final line, too, allows no straightforward decision between a trochaic and an iambic scansion. If we are preferring trochees, we would scan the final line as having an additional syllable at the beginning, three dactyls, and a missing final...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 655–658.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in the oldest Indic poetry. Based on his work from 2014, Kümmel first gathers evidence that syllable weight in Old Avestan was calculated similarly to the way it was in Sogdian, and differently from the way in Vedic, as it first appears. Kümmel analyzes Sogdian-style in comparison to Vedic-style scansion...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 661–664.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... It begins by presenting a model of metrical form that emphasizes the role of “musi- cal scansion” (based on isochrony and hierarchy of recurrent “beats” and measures) and then moves on to a historical discussion. There Leech claims that the “sprung rhythm” developed in the second half...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 664–667.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... It begins by presenting a model of metrical form that emphasizes the role of “musi- cal scansion” (based on isochrony and hierarchy of recurrent “beats” and measures) and then moves on to a historical discussion. There Leech claims that the “sprung rhythm” developed in the second half...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 667–670.
Published: 01 September 2010
... that emphasizes the role of “musi- cal scansion” (based on isochrony and hierarchy of recurrent “beats” and measures) and then moves on to a historical discussion. There Leech claims that the “sprung rhythm” developed in the second half of the nine- teenth century by Gerard Manley Hopkins involved...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 670–673.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by presenting a model of metrical form that emphasizes the role of “musi- cal scansion” (based on isochrony and hierarchy of recurrent “beats” and measures) and then moves on to a historical discussion. There Leech claims that the “sprung rhythm” developed in the second half of the nine- teenth...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 673–675.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to fit in so well with the book’s main theme. It begins by presenting a model of metrical form that emphasizes the role of “musi- cal scansion” (based on isochrony and hierarchy of recurrent “beats” and measures) and then moves on to a historical discussion. There Leech claims...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 189–201.
Published: 01 February 2017
... issues as the problem of foot-scansion or the implications of isochronous systems of rhythm are considered in perfectly lucid prose. At all stages in his argumenta- tion Culler makes extensive use of well-selected textual examples, not merely for illustration but also for close analysis. Almost all...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 1–37.
Published: 01 March 2005
... equivalence as strict as that of verse. Cadences like these prompted William Hazlitt, master of a prose style 25. In the 1752 Folio edition, Johnson changes ‘‘lenitives’’ to ‘‘antidotes strengthening the sense cure’’ for ‘‘palliative and preserving the scansion but losing the contrast...