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Polymetrie Polákovy Vznešenosti přírody

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Ibrahim R.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2007

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vol. 55

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issue 1

41-79

EN

The study deals with the polymetrics of Milota Zdirad Polák‘s (1788-1856) Vznešenost přírody (1819, The Sublime of Nature). This topic was not yet treated, not even in specialized studies (Jan Mukařovský, 1934; Miroslav Červenka, 1995). After a list of applied meters (Polák used a syllabotonic as well as quantitative prosody) the focus turns to a traditional hypothesis that meter is changed in relation to topic (or subtopic). This was not confirmed. However, metric alternation is not totally random: with the exception of cantos II. and V., there is some regularity: Písně (Songs) are in trochaic tetrameter, other parts (called Slavozpěvy, Chvalozpěvy, Mnohozpěvy etc) make, regarding to their numbers, length, and labeling, metrically heterogeneous lyrical insets. Their heterogeneity corresponds their very lyrical basis (link to the Boileau’s “un beau desordre” could be made as well). Trochaic tetrameter, an unusual meter not only in Czech literature, is with its 69% presence a preponderant meter. Motivation of its use could be seen in its inherent character (long verse lands to descriptions), but also in possible literary inspiration (in particular in European descriptive poetry, e.g. Thomson, Wieland, Ewald von Kleist). Although the trochaic tetrameter was not used in any of these examples, it appears in Brockes’ verse prologue to his (German) translation of Thomson’s The Seasons (translated 1745). On the other hand we cannot totally neglect the Czech context of the XVIII-Century. Descriptive poetry is very demanding for the reader. Yet Thomson sought ways how to make descriptive parts more vivid. Polák decided to solve this problem by rhythmical/metrical heterogeneity. (In coincidence with his main topic: heterogeneity of Nature.) This heterogeneity is better seen when one compares the former redaction of Vznešenost přírody (called Vznešenost přirozenosti, 1813) where the use of polymetrics is not so striking. The use of polymetrics in Vznešenost přírody was a novelty not only in the frames of genre (European descriptive poetry used just the monometrics), but also in the context of modern Czech literature – Mácha’s Máj (May), also polymetric, was published nearly twenty years later.

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

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Adamu J. S. a.

Studies in African Languages and Cultures

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2015

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issue 49

69-95

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.

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The Nātyaśāstra: the Origin of the Ancient Indian Poetics

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Lidova N.

Cracow Indological Studies

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2012

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vol. 14

61-85

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The Sanskrit treatise Nāṭyaśāstra is the most ancient and authoritative Indian text on the arts. Some researchers, trying to single out the most ancient kernel of the text, dated it to the 5th century BCE. Others, meaning the concluding stage of its formation, by which the treatise had incorporated interpolations from different times, proposed much later dates up to the 7th-8th centuries CE. It is widely believed that the treatise acquired its modern form between the 2nd century BCE and the 2nd century CE. Of an encyclopaedic scope, the Nātyaśāstra treats a great variety of topics and comprises a manual for producers and performers, treatises on the theory of drama and aesthetics, as well as the oldest poetic theory in the Indian tradition. The main aim of this paper is to analyze the Nātyaśāstra as the earliest available source for the study of the Ancient Indian poetics.

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On the Possibility of Continuity in the Metrical Status of Heavy Syllables in Medieval English

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Kołos M.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2016

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issue 25/2

31-41

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The present paper focuses on instances of irregular, non-root accentuation placed on words of Germanic origin in Middle English iambic verse. A proposed explanation for the phenomenon is the continued special metrical status of heavy syllables from Old to Middle English and the retained potential of such syllables for attracting poetic accent. The analysis also takes into account additional factors, including possible external influences and morphological considerations. The text samples are selected basing on the date of their provenance and metrical regularity. In order to reduce the possibility of the results being affected by any loose applications of metre, the analysis is confined to the metrically strongest positions within each type of verse.

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Rytmická stránka Nerudova rýmu

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Říha J.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2012

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vol. 60

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issue 3

409-427

EN

This article considers the rhythmical aspect of rhyme in the published collections of verse of Jan Neruda (1834-1891), Hřbitovní kvítí (1857), Knihy veršů (1867), Písně kosmické (1878), Balady a romance (1878-83), and Zpěvy páteční (1896). The author´s method is to start from the theoretical works of Jan Mukařovský (1891-1975) (the rhythmical aspect of rhyme) and Miroslav Červenka (1932-2005) (the structure of endings in Czech syllabotonic verse). When describing Neruda´s collections, the author focuses on the frequency of the individual endings and their combinations in rhyming lines. The discussion is based on comparing the actual frequency of endings with their theoretical frequency (resulting from linguistic factors). The changes in frequency of endings from one collection to the other are put into a system with changes in, among other things, the range of meters and stanza types, and changes in the semantics of the rhyme. Particular attention is paid to the question of dactylic rhyme, which was an essential ingredient of Písně kosmické and Prosté motivy, and the question of rhyme without meter.

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Між віршем і прозою: специфіка перехідних жанрів в сучасній українській літературі

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Kytsan O.

Studia Ucrainica Varsoviensia

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2017

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vol. 5

195-205

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The article analyses the poetry where verse and prose, two varieties of artistic language organization, cooperate closely. Modern poetry is open for experiments. For this reason many authors allow themselves to combine poetic and prosaic elements in one text. As a result, we get texts that carry a double emotional loading. Among such texts there are rhyme metrical prose, strophic prose, verse in prose, vers libre and pollymetric constructions that combine verse and prose.

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