Arabic patterns in Hausa poetry: stanza, metre and rhyme in comparative perspective

• Authors: Adamu Jibril Shu’aibu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with prosodic patterns of the Hausa poetry and investigates its stanzaic, metre, and rhyme structure with reference to the patterns developed in the Arabic poetry. Using the corpus of poems written in ajami by four contemporary poets the use of Arabic-based patterns as well as their “deviated” or “defected” forms have been investigated. The analysis confirms the crossfertilization between the oral and written poems tradition in Hausa.

Keywords

EN

prosody; stanza; metre; rhyme; Hausa

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Studies in African Languages and Cultures
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 49
• Pages: 69-95

Dates

published

2015-12-10

Contributors

author

Adamu Jibril Shu’aibu

• Bayero University, Kano
• University of Warsaw

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