The article focuses on the political views and attitudes of the poet Viktor Dyk, his activities in the internal resistance during World War I and his literary reflections on the establishment of Czechoslovakia in October 1918.
The article deals with versified works of Viktor Dyk from the pre-war period (1897–1914) written in iambic pentameter. It analyses the relationship between the texts’ genre (lyric, satire, drama) and their rhythmic features (frequencies of stressing the line-initial and line-final syllables, frequencies of enjambment). The article concludes that Dyk’s lyric poems as well as his drama tend to employ features generally perceived as more literary compared to his satire.
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