Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms. From Language to Metrics and Beyond
Résumé
Metrics is often defined as a discipline that concerns itself with the study of meters. In this volume the term is used in a broader sense that more or less coincides with the traditional notion of "versification". Understood this way, metrics is an eminently complex object that displays variation over time and in space, that concerns forms of a great variety and with different statuses (meters, rhymes, stanzas, prescribed forms, syllabification rules, nursery rhymes, slogans, musical textsetting, ablaut reduplication etc.), and that as a cultural manifestation is performed in a variety of ways (sung, chanted, spoken, read) that can have direct consequences on how it is structured. This profusion of forms is thought to correspond, at the level of perception, to a limited number of cognitive mechanisms that allow us to perceive and to represent regularly iterating forms. This volume proposes a relatively coherent overall vision by distinguishing four main families of metrical forms, each clearly independent of the others and amenable to separate typologies.
Mots clés
metrics
versification
verse
metrical typology
musical textsetting
Zwiefache
nursery rhyme
chant
sung metrics
song
sign languages
French metrics
English metrics
arabic metrics
generative metrics
middle English
alliterative verse
Joseph Brodsky
translation
W.H. Auden
caesura
greek metrics
italian metrics
spanish metrics
line ending
ablaut reduplication
elision
rhyme
Tristan Corbière
Sephardic song
Hungarian metrics
stanza
sonnet