item: #1 of 116
          id: smp-11946
      author: Lotman, Mihhail; Pilshchikov, Igor; Lotman, Maria-Kristiina
       title: Editorial
        date: 2014-12-31
       words: 539
      flesch: 52
     summary: Nine issues have been published, devoted to topics such as the rhythmical lexicon of language and methods of its process- ing, the syllabic structure of verse, the semantics of verse, verse in translation, sonnet, the fund of European metres in Slavic verse traditions, free verse, short verse metres, hexameter and ancient stanzas in Slavic poetry. On the other hand, her attention was focused on both literary approaches (see, for example, her study of Romanticist verse) and various non-Slavic traditions (for instance, classical prosody and even the common heritage of European verse), as well as literary contacts.
    keywords: maria; verse
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        item: #2 of 116
          id: smp-11947
      author: Suzuki, Seiichi
       title: Metrical Positions and their Linguistic Realisations in Old Germanic Metres: A Typological Overview
        date: 2014-12-31
       words: 12421
      flesch: 55
     summary: This complementary distribution of verse types predicated on the distinction between the a-verse and the b-verse would have significant consequences on 6 We will exclude the ljóðaháttr c-verse from consideration (except in connection with the contrast with the a-/b-verse in the way marked verse types are accommodated; see section 2.2 below), as it is categorically longer than is prescribed by the four-position principle, and organised on a different formal basis (Suzuki 2014: 665–760). Such a unique com- plementary organisation of verse types on the basis of the dichotomy into the a-verse and the b-verse may provide an explanatory account of why anacrusis occurs less frequently in ljóðaháttr than in the Heliand, in which favorable con- ditions for anacrusis may apply pervasively to the whole set of verses without demonstrable distinction between the a-verse and the b-verse.
    keywords: anacrusis; beowulf; drop; fornyrðislag; heliand; lift; ljóðaháttr; metres; málaháttr; position; principle; resolution; suzuki; type; verse; × ×
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        item: #3 of 116
          id: smp-11948
      author: Frog, -
       title: Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae II: Base-Word-Determinant Indexing
        date: 2014-12-31
       words: 14281
      flesch: 59
     summary: Use of proper names with skúr in the survey of Meissner (1921: 181) show only 1 among 19 examples of basic kennings (not the same as the one below), and 6 of 67 for hríð (Meissner 1921: 180), so low frequency here is not surprising in that respect. In other words, within the register, formulae and similar resources also took shape in relation to individual metres and their particular conventions.
    keywords: 1(p)yyxx; alliteration; base; battle; determinant; dróttkvætt; examples; formula; frog; heiti; kennings; language; lexical; line; metrical; names; poetry; register; rhyme; semantic; type; use; valkyrie; variation; words
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        item: #4 of 116
          id: smp-11949
      author: Lotman, Maria-Kristiina; Lotman, Mihhail
       title: The Accentual Structure of Estonian Syllabic-Accentual Iambic Tetrameter
        date: 2014-12-31
       words: 9803
      flesch: 64
     summary: Keywords: Estonian verse, iambic tetrameter, rhythm, statistical analysis of verse 0. While in German and Russian poetry traditions of 18th to 19th century iambus is, first of all, iambic tetrameter, (I4) and trochee is, first of all, trochaic tetram- eter (T4), contrasting as a metre of European high culture and as a popular verse form (Gasparov 1989: 214–215), in Estonian verse, just like in English tradition, trochaic tetrameter is, in the first place, opposed to the iambic pen- tameter.
    keywords: authors; average; chart; estonian; iambic; lotman; positions; ridala; stresses; stressing; syllabic; verse
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        item: #5 of 116
          id: smp-11950
      author: Dobrzyńska, Teresa
       title: Verse Forms as Bearers of Semantic Values
        date: 2014-12-31
       words: 8015
      flesch: 64
     summary: Verse form as an iconic sign Let us stick to the type of semantisation of verse form which was visible in the last quoted examples: the amphibrachic lullabies as well as the pieces inherit- ing the daemonic connotations of these monotonous forms. Verse forms may be employed as bearers of semantic values.
    keywords: bearers; dobrzyńska; eds; forms; function; kopczyńska; lucylla; metryka; mickiewicz; poem; polish; pszczołowska; rhythm; sign; się; speech; structure; syllable; teresa; text; use; values; verse; verse forms; warszawa
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        item: #6 of 116
          id: smp-11951
      author: Pszczołowska, Lucylla
       title: Comparative Slavic Metrics. Evolution of Aims and Methods of Investigation
        date: 2014-12-31
       words: 5229
      flesch: 54
     summary: In the versifications with movable stress, entropy in the distribution of rhythmical variants of verse structure is very high and it is impossible to establish a clear hierarchy. We all used the same categories for describing verse structure, themes, style and intonation.
    keywords: poetry; pszczołowska; research; structure; syllabic; verse; versifications; vocabulary; volume
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        item: #7 of 116
          id: smp-11952
      author: Pilshchikov, Igor
       title: Frontiers in Comparative Metrics 2, in memoriam Lucyllae Pszczołowskae (April 19–20, 2014, Tallinn University, Estonia)
        date: 2014-12-31
       words: 5962
      flesch: 46
     summary: Russian verse theorists, who developed Andrei Belyi’s (1910) insight on the differences between the rhythm of Russian 18th and 19th century iambic tetrameter, came close to a descrip- tion of the entire history of Russian verse as a systematic evolution of many relevant parameters from one period to another. (A scholar of Russian verse may recall here Mikhail Gasparov’s similar study of the leading poet of the Russian avant-garde, entitled “Twenty versification-based textual amendments to the texts of Mayakovsky” [Gasparov 1991]).
    keywords: century; estonian; greek; latin; line; lotman; metre; metrical; metrics; paper; poetry; russian; structure; syllables; verse; versification
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        item: #8 of 116
          id: smp-11953
      author: Kazartsev, Evgenij; Voevodskaja, Tatjana
       title: Marina Krasnoperova: A Trodden Path
        date: 2014-12-31
       words: 1745
      flesch: 46
     summary: Marina Krasnoperova: A Trodden Path Evgenij Kazartsev, Tatjana Voevodskaja Marina Abramovna Krasnoperova-Eidel (1941–2010) was an extraordinary scholar who worked at the junction of linguistics, poetics and mathemat- ics, entirely devoting herself to a special area of knowledge: verse prosody. In the last decade Marina Krasnoperova together with a group of physicists and mathematicians studied the possibilities of neural networks for an anal- ysis of processes simulated in the theory of RS (Krasnoperova et al. 2001; Krasnoperova, Granichin 2001).
    keywords: kazartsev; krasnoperova; linguistics; marina; sankt; theory; verse
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        item: #9 of 116
          id: smp-11954
      author: Lotman, Mihhail
       title: Vadim Baevskij (1929–2013)
        date: 2014-12-01
       words: 1474
      flesch: 62
     summary: Vadim Baevskij (1929–2013) Mihhail Lotman On November 12, 2013, Vadim Solomonovich Baevskij, the outstanding Russian scholar of poetry and versification passed away. Vadim Baevskij, a veteran in the studies of Russian versification, started his research in the 1960s, when any formal approach to the study of literature was strongly disfavoured for ideological reasons.
    keywords: baevskij; moskva; poetry; solomonovich; studies; vadim
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        item: #10 of 116
          id: smp-12181
      author: Frog, -
       title: Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae III: From Metric-Structural Type to Compositional System
        date: 2015-07-07
       words: 12131
      flesch: 61
     summary: Th e examples of YyX(p)56 identifi ed here also present cases of lexical paral- lels in the rhyme-position independent of recurrent rhyme collocations in the data. Th e rhyme-word that recurs in positions 5–6 may carry rhyme with either the base-word or the determinant.
    keywords: base; battle; case; determinant; dróttkvætt; examples; formula; frog; genitive; infl; kennings; metrical; names; rhyme; study; type; use; words
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        item: #11 of 116
          id: smp-12182
      author: Lotman, Mihhail; Lotman, Maria-Kristiina
       title: Lost and found in translation: the case of alliteration
        date: 2014-06-07
       words: 7638
      flesch: 61
     summary: Conditionally, we will call such alliteration “the Germanic type”. Such alliteration has a function similar to that of rhyme, yet it does not mark the end of a verse line, but its beginning.
    keywords: alliteration; case; diff; edda; epic; erent; estonian; example; gost; instance; kalevala; kristiina; languages; lotman; maria; mihhail; poe; rhyme; rst; russian; sounds; text; translation; type; verse; word; гость
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        item: #12 of 116
          id: smp-12183
      author: Liapin, Sergei; Pilshchikov, Igor
       title: “Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam” and the typology of the Russian dolnik (following Osip Brik’s, Boris Jarcho’s and Andrei Fedorov’s remarks on the Russian translations from Heine)
        date: 2015-07-07
       words: 9461
      flesch: 67
     summary: Th e lines of Form V, the frequency of which in “the early Tsvetaeva type” (see note 23) yields only to that of Form III, have low frequency in “Th e Magdalene”, while the lines of Form IV, absent from “the early Tsvetaeva type”, are as frequent here as in German dolniks. 76 Sergei Liapin, Igor Pilshchikov Th e second line belonging to Form V reads as follows: И нá-ноги-бы, | и пóд (-ноги-бы)24 But it can be recited as Form III with an unstressed second ictus fi lled by the particle бы, which in this case acquires the quality of rhythmical ‘ambiguity’:
    keywords: 2012; brik; dolnik; fichtenbaum; form; german; heine; ictus; iii; iii iii; iv iii; line; metre; russian; stress; syllables; translation; verse
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        item: #13 of 116
          id: smp-12184
      author: Mehl, Scott
       title: Early Twentieth-Century Terms for New Verse Forms (‘free verse’ and others) in Japanese and Arabic
        date: 2015-07-07
       words: 11180
      flesch: 64
     summary: 101Early Twentieth-Century Terms for New Verse Forms time when free verse poetry was first being written and debated, Japanese and Arabophone critics were actively engaged with many of the literatures of Europe, and therefore it would be necessary to describe and historicise the ecologies of the same concepts in (to set a pragmatic limit) French and English, as well. Key words: free verse, modern Japanese poetry, modern Arabic poetry, poetic form Introduction Near the end of his study A History of European Versification, Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov describes free verse – or to use the chronologically earlier term, vers libre1 – as a new verse form that has found success in a broad multinational context: “Vers libre is international: it has integrated all the traditions developed by different languages and cultures.
    keywords: arabic; century; colloquial; english; essay; forms; japanese; language; moreh; new; poetry; poets; press; prose; scott; shi‘r; term; term shi‘r; verse; verse poetry
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        item: #14 of 116
          id: smp-12185
      author: Plecháč, Petr; Kolár, Robert
       title: The Corpus of Czech Verse
        date: 2015-07-07
       words: 3192
      flesch: 66
     summary: Th e user can both search for and st atistically evaluate data on the basis of their own and/or default fi lters, and browse through individual records in the database. Th e user can specify whether the tests will be performed at the signifi cance level α = 0.001 (i.e. the 0.1% risk that the lemma whose higher frequency in the poem is only a coincidence will be incorrectly marked as a keyword), or α = 0.01 (i.e. 1% risk).
    keywords: corpus; czech; frequency; number; poem; rhyme; verse
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        item: #15 of 116
          id: smp-12186
      author: Lekomceva, Margarita
       title: Correlation of Metrical and Phonological Units of Language
        date: 2015-07-07
       words: 5722
      flesch: 60
     summary: Th is explains the fact that in languages where syl- lables are divided into dependent and independent, the initial stage of poetry relies on counting independent syllables (tonic versifi cation). At that, it determines not only the positions in which the syllables of both types are equivalent, but also the positions in which one syllable can be replaced by other syllables, for example, in a certain position of the hexameter, two short syllables can substitute for a long syllable.
    keywords: cation; diff; erent; features; language; metric; syllables; system; units; verse; versifi; vowels; word
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        item: #16 of 116
          id: smp-12187
      author: Lilja, Eva
       title: Reuven Tsur. Playing by Ear and the Tip of the Tongue Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Johns Benjamins, 2012
        date: 2015-07-07
       words: 2317
      flesch: 66
     summary: Th e poetic text is spatial as well as temporal. Studia Metrica et Poetica sisu 2_1.indd Reuven Tsur Playing by Ear and the Tip of the Tongue Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Johns Benjamins, 2012 Eva Lilja Reuven Tsur created cognitive poetics, and from 1977 on his perspectives greatly shaped the fi eld.
    keywords: gestalt; poetic; sound; tsur
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        item: #17 of 116
          id: smp-12188
      author: Lotman, Mihhail
       title: A study on Shakespeare’s verse in its historical context (Marina Tarlinskaja, Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561–1642, Ashgate, 2014)
        date: 2015-07-06
       words: 5847
      flesch: 59
     summary: Th e fi rst (Tarlinskaja 1987) was devoted to the detailed analysis of the rhythm of Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter. doi: dx.doi.org/10.12697/smp.2015.2.1.08 Studia Metrica et Poetica 2.1, 2015, 140–153 dx.doi.org/10.12697/smp.2015.2.1.08 141Review articles Studies on rhythm Marina Tarlinskaja has investigated English verse for over half a century, focusing on diff erent problems of verse rhythm.
    keywords: analysis; diff; english; erent; lotman; marina; metre; rhythm; rst; russian; shakespeare; studies; tarlinskaja; verse
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        item: #18 of 116
          id: smp-12189
      author: Scherr, Barry P.
       title: Versification at the 2014 ASEEES Convention (November 2014, San Antonio, Texas, USA)
        date: 2015-07-07
       words: 1674
      flesch: 51
     summary: Shvabrin noted that Nabokov preferred Sergei Bobrov’s term pauznik and used it to apply to a broader range of verse forms in which the number of weak syllables between ictuses is variable. First, she referred to what she termed a “new wave” in the study of non-classical verse.
    keywords: analysis; lines; verse
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        item: #19 of 116
          id: smp-12190
      author: deCastro-Arrazola, Varun
       title: The Structure of Verse: Formal, experimental and computational approaches, 19-20 March 2015, Leiden University, The Netherlands
        date: 2015-07-07
       words: 795
      flesch: 47
     summary: Th e main claim was that “each line of metrical poetry is constructed and held as a whole unit in working memory capacity.” As a result, verse studies are scattered across a number of university departments.
    keywords: poetry; verse
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        item: #20 of 116
          id: smp-12546
      author: Lotman, Mihhail; Pilshchikov, Igor; Lotman, Maria-Kristiina
       title: Editorial
        date: 2015-12-31
       words: 1023
      flesch: 48
     summary: This current issue, which is to celebrate Oras’s 115th anniversary, is yet one more step on the journey to put Ants Oras in his right- ful place, and recognize him as a founding father of Estonian literary culture. Ants Oras belonged to the next generation of authors, but the ideas of Noor-Eesti were close to him.
    keywords: estonian; oras; versification
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        item: #21 of 116
          id: smp-12547
      author: Tarlinskaja, Marina
       title: Ants Oras: Did He Know Russian “Formalists”?
        date: 2015-12-31
       words: 5728
      flesch: 63
     summary: Eventually MacDonald P. Jackson dis- covered Ants Oras, but during his lifetime, as mentioned above, Oras’s works on stressed feminine endings in Henry VIII and pause patterns in Renaissance dramas, though innovative, were hardly noticed. 17Ants Oras: Did He Know Russian “Formalists”? weaker link).
    keywords: ants; english; estonian; example; line; oras; position; russian; shakespeare; syntactic; tarlinskaja; verse
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        item: #22 of 116
          id: smp-12548
      author: Bruster, Douglas
       title: Shakespeare’s Pauses, Authorship, and Early Chronology
        date: 2015-12-31
       words: 7899
      flesch: 63
     summary: Keywords: William Shakespeare, attribution, authorship, Ants Oras, prosody, met- rics, pause patterns, caesura, iambic pentameter, chronology, Arden of Faversham, 1 Henry VI, Edward III, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Marina Tarlinskaja 1. Just as any individual’s electrocardiographic results are likely to change over time (and, as Oras posits, not be under an individual’s control), so do pause patterns develop in appreciable ways.
    keywords: authorship; charts; chronology; henry; line; oras; patterns; pauses; pentameter; plays; shakespeare; texts
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        item: #23 of 116
          id: smp-12549
      author: Jackson, MacDonald P.
       title: Ants Oras and the Analysis of Early Modern English Dramatic Verse
        date: 2015-12-31
       words: 4036
      flesch: 62
     summary: An interest in prosody has not characterized the last fifty years of Shakespeare studies, though there have been a few good books on the subject, notably by George T. Wright and Peter L. Groves. For example, The Merry Wives of Windsor (dated 1597) was most similar to Troilus and Cressida (1602): not only does Merry Wives contain very little verse, and the smaller the sample the greater the influence of purely random factors, but also the revised chronology of the forthcoming New Oxford Shakespeare makes the two plays adjacent.3 It would be idle to suppose that artistic change must always be a matter of steady, linear, one-way progression, but something approaching this kind of regularity evidently governed Shakespeare’s disposition of pauses within his blank verse lines.
    keywords: english; jackson; oras; patterns; plays; shakespeare; thomas; verse
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        item: #24 of 116
          id: smp-12550
      author: Lange, Anne
       title: On the Relevance of Research to Translation
        date: 2015-12-31
       words: 6911
      flesch: 58
     summary: By the 1930s, having completed his studies at Tartu and at Oxford, with his thesis on the 18th century commented editions of Milton,1 Oras had the standing needed to perform his perceived mission: to construct for his people an identity that would see beyond obtrusive geographic, linguistic and historical differences. On the Relevance of Research to Translation Anne Lange* 1 Abstract: The paper examines the interrelation of the critical, academic, and transla- tional heritage of Ants Oras.
    keywords: ants; estonian; language; meschonnic; milton; new; oras; original; pauses; peab; poetry; research; rhythm; text; translation; university; verse; work
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        item: #25 of 116
          id: smp-12551
      author: Päll, Janika
       title: Ancient World of the Poet and Performance in Translations by Ants Oras
        date: 2015-12-30
       words: 11174
      flesch: 66
     summary: Keywords: Ants Oras, translation, Ancient Greek poetry, Homeric Hymns, Sappho Introduction This paper studies the means by which Ants Oras in his translations recreates the poetic space of the performance of ancient Greek hymns, paying special attention to his use of deictics in the translation of the Homeric Hymn (No. 5) to Aphrodite (Oras 1976). 89Ancient world of the poet and performance in translations by Ants Oras In his translation of v. 92, Oras has omitted half of the verse and the deictics (τάδε ‘these here’) which accompany the nouns.
    keywords: ants; ants oras; aphrodite; centre; deictic; epic; estonian; greek; hymn; janika; muse; narrator; nüüd; oras; performance; person; poet; pronoun; päll; sappho; singer; story; tartu; text; translation; university; verse; world
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        item: #26 of 116
          id: smp-12552
      author: Lotman, Mihhail
       title: Breaking the Syllabic-accentual Monotony
        date: 2015-12-31
       words: 5747
      flesch: 63
     summary: Such interpretation is, however, problematic, and it would be more correct here to speak of accentual verse (Bailey 1969) or, more accurately, dolnik (Tarlinskaja 1993: 13). The distribution of different rhythmic structures is showed in Chart 7 (it has to be kept in mind, that all these names – iambs, dactyls, and so on, are purely conditional, these are not verse meters, but homonymic rhythmic forms).
    keywords: adoneus; estonian; faust; goethe; iamb; iambic; knittelvers; lines; lotman; oras; position; stress; syllable; verse
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        item: #27 of 116
          id: smp-12553
      author: Oras, Ants
       title: A Note on Translating Pasternak’s Verse
        date: 2015-12-31
       words: 2759
      flesch: 55
     summary: Since Russian suffixes are often stressed, and in many instances long, they can be used for disyllabic, trisyllabic, tetrasyllabic and even pentasyllabic rhymes, all of which types Pasternak makes use of to add to the richness of his sound effects and to produce those sinuous line-end rhythms which in English sel- dom occur in serious verse, largely because they tend to sound labored or savor too much of studied ingenuity. A Note on Translating Pasternak’s Verse1 Ants Oras One of the central facts about Pasternak’s verse is that it is all of a piece, but no cameo-fashion: it is intensely alive, it moves and vibrates.
    keywords: line; pasternak; poems; rhymes; verse
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        item: #28 of 116
          id: smp-12554
      author: Lange, Anne
       title: Notes on the Notes
        date: 2015-12-31
       words: 1751
      flesch: 66
     summary: Ivask did send the translations to Pasternak, but whether Pasternak read them or not is not clear from the archives: there is no mention of them in Pasternak’s last letter to Ivask dated February 18, 1960; and on May 30, 1960, Boris Pasternak died. In September 2014, when the US President Barack Obama, on his way to the NATO summit in Wales, stopped at Tallinn to deliver his speech against the backdrop of the escalating military conflict in the Ukraine, he quoted the Estonian poet Marie Under in the translation of Ants Oras. 133Notes on the notes References Carlisle, Olga 1960 = Boris Pasternak.
    keywords: english; ivask; oras; pasternak; poems; translations; zhivago
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        item: #29 of 116
          id: smp-12555
      author: Oras, Ants
       title: On Rendering French Syllabic Verse in Estonian Language: Reflections and Proposals
        date: 2015-12-31
       words: 2859
      flesch: 59
     summary: The stress placement in verse lines for us is mostly predetermined, while in French verse both the number and position of stress varies. On Rendering French Syllabic Verse in Estonian Language: Reflections and Proposals1 Ants Oras 1 In recent times we have witnessed – most notably due to the popular work of Johannes Semper – an increase in the number of Estonian renditions of French verse.
    keywords: alexandrine; baudelaire; estonian; form; french; kui; language; lines; syllables; verse
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        item: #30 of 116
          id: smp-12556
      author: Novikov, Kadri; Arukask, Anni
       title: Pontes ad Fontes – Bridges to Sources
        date: 2015-12-31
       words: 2522
      flesch: 47
     summary: This subtitle offered an opportunity to include papers on poetry and poetics, methods and possibili- ties of textual analysis, themes and forms of ancient poetry in contemporary literature, and so on. Texts of these disputations were printed before the disputations themselves took place; the printed versions included occasional poems congratulating the respondents (that is, students of the Gymnasium, who were the authors of the disputations), which were added to the end of the texts.
    keywords: cursus; horace; poems; poetry; speeches; university
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          id: smp-12557
      author: Fries, Almut
       title: Martin Litchfield West (1937–2015)
        date: 2015-12-31
       words: 2681
      flesch: 63
     summary: Fortunately, the young man did not follow this no doubt honest and well-intentioned recommendation – for his name was Martin West. No one who has ever encountered Martin West, the scholar or the man, is likely to forget the experience.
    keywords: greek; martin; martin l.; oxford; press; university; west
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        item: #32 of 116
          id: smp-1278
      author: Lotman, Mihhail; Pilshchikov, Igor; Lotman, Maria-Kristiina
       title: Editorial
        date: 2014-04-22
       words: 769
      flesch: 58
     summary: Studia metrica et poetica. Studia metrica et poetica.
    keywords: riiklik; tartu; ülikool
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        item: #33 of 116
          id: smp-1279
      author: Tarlinskaja, Marina
       title: Kyd and Marlowe’s Revolution: from Surrey’s Aeneid to Marlowe’s Tamburlaine
        date: 2014-04-22
       words: 7705
      flesch: 67
     summary: Kyd and Marlowe’s Revolution: from Surrey’s Aeneid to Marlowe’s Tamburlaine Marina Tarlinskaja*1 Abstract. Marlowe and Kyd represented a new generation of playwrights who wrote for the commercial stage patronized by commoners.
    keywords: aeneid; english; gorboduc; iambic; jocasta; kyd; lines; marlowe; play; positions; surrey; tamburlaine; tragedy; words
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        item: #34 of 116
          id: smp-1280
      author: Scherr, Barry P.
       title: Odd Stanzas
        date: 2014-04-22
       words: 13124
      flesch: 69
     summary: The work is in dac- tylic dimeter, with the contrast between the masculine and the dactylic lines creating a marked variation in line length. The innovative quality of Zhukovskij’s 9-line stanzas turns out to be indica- tive for the manner in which poets write long stanzas with an odd number of lines: the use of such stanzaic forms generally reflects an effort not so much to follow or establish a tradition as to experiment with form, to work out new rhyme schemes as well as unusual combinations of line lengths and metres.
    keywords: barry; century; english; final; forms; iambic; lengths; lermontov; line; line stanzas; number; poems; rhyme; rhyme scheme; russian; scheme; scherr; tetrameter; use; verse; works; zhukovskij
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        item: #35 of 116
          id: smp-1281
      author: Zolyan, Suren
       title: The Daredevils of Sassoun: The Deep Structure of the Plot
        date: 2014-04-22
       words: 5384
      flesch: 59
     summary: Maybe, Vladimir Propp’s theory can explain such strong correlation between deep semantics of The Daredevils of Sassoun and Lévi-Strauss formula: that is how the transi- tion from myth to epic transforms the content system of myth, – meanwhile the system of semantic oppositions and categories which is inherited from the previous stage remains unchangeable and has been becoming a formal means of expression for the new content and new ideological patterns. Then, there is an ordered group of semantic oppositions which determine the gradual transition from the initial situation to its inversed form at the finality of the epic.
    keywords: daredevils; epic; level; mher; myth; plot; poem; sassoun; semantic; set; structure; surface; text; versions
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        item: #36 of 116
          id: smp-1282
      author: Hartman, Megan E.
       title: The Form and Style of Gnomic Hypermetrics
        date: 2014-04-22
       words: 14322
      flesch: 60
     summary: Thus, gnomic hypermetric verse would have stood out from more con- servative narrative poetry since the gnomic poems as a group do not maintain conservative tendencies as closely. The four-stress verse might instead be a particular feature of gnomic hypermetric verse.
    keywords: english; hypermetric; lines; maxims; onset; pattern; poems; poetry; stress; style; type; use; verses; × ×; × ́; ́ ×
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        item: #37 of 116
          id: smp-1283
      author: Frog, -
       title: Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae I: When is a Valkyrie Like a Spear?
        date: 2014-04-22
       words: 17707
      flesch: 56
     summary: Before opening a discussion of the role of these words in rhyme, it is practical to first introduce other examples of this basic metric-structural type of battle kenning with different base-words and discuss their use as determinants in that context. The example is also of interest because the determinant ‘bird of carrion’ is otherwise only attested in battle kennings with the determinant ‘joy’ (cf.
    keywords: alliteration; base; battle; determinant; dróttkvætt; examples; formula; formulaic; frog; gnýr; heiti; kenning; language; line; meter; metrical; names; poetry; register; rhyme; semantic; skaldic; type; university; use; valkyrie; variation; words
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        item: #38 of 116
          id: smp-1284
      author: Lilja, Eva
       title: Reuven Tsur. Poetic Rhythm. Structure and performance. An empirical study in cognitive poetics. 2nd ed. Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2012 (A review article)
        date: 2014-04-22
       words: 2916
      flesch: 60
     summary: Summing-up With the entrance of cognitive poetics versification studies has become a cen- tral issue. Poetic Rhythm aims at giving empirical evidence for a cognitive theory of versification, as presented in Tsur’s book of 1977, Perception-Oriented Theory of Metre.
    keywords: gestalt; pattern; perception; rhythm; tsur; versification
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        item: #39 of 116
          id: smp-13038
      author: Blumenfeld, Lev
       title: End-weight effects in verse and language
        date: 2016-09-26
       words: 8694
      flesch: 65
     summary: Proximity in verse lines Verse lines can be thought of as analogs to notes, and thus can be subject to the preferences like those expressed in (7) and (8). Change in verse lines Now consider how Change (8) might apply to sequences of verse lines.
    keywords: beats; beginning; boundary; couplet; effect; grouping; language; line; parallelism; proximity; short; structure; verse; weight
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        item: #40 of 116
          id: smp-13039
      author: Dobritsyn, Andrei
       title: Rhythmic entropy as a measure of rhythmic diversity (The example of the Russian iambic tetrameter)
        date: 2016-09-26
       words: 6318
      flesch: 68
     summary: It is the divergence of the distribution of rhythmic forms in a particular poem or group of poems from the modelled (language-based or speech-based) distribution of the same forms. Keywords: Russian iambic tetrameter, rhythmic forms, frequency, entropy, modelled distribution, Kullback–Leibler divergence *
    keywords: distribution; divergence; diversity; entropy; forms; iii; poems; profile; rhythmic; table
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        item: #41 of 116
          id: smp-13040
      author: Pilshchikov, Igor
       title: The semiotics of phonetic translation
        date: 2016-09-26
       words: 18577
      flesch: 65
     summary: The problem of phonetic translation The prominent Russian scholar Mikhail Gasparov observed: “If a translation normally preserves the meaning, leaving no trace of the original sound, then why not allow a translation that preserves the sound but changes the original meaning?” 55The semiotics of phonetic translation should be ascribed to verbal music [muzyka slov], which can be imitated, but cannot be reproduced.
    keywords: aleksandr; andrei; belyi; briusov; clausula; der; eikhenbaum; example; fedorov; german; goethe; heine; igor; instrumentation; ivanov; jakobson; language; leningrad; line; mandelshtam; meaning; moskva; nauka; new; original; phenomenon; phonetic; pilshchikov; poem; poet; poetry; rhyme; rhythm; russian; schiller; semiotics; sound; structure; syntactic; syntax; text; tiutchev; translation; tynianov; university; verse; word; yuri; zhukovsky
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        item: #42 of 116
          id: smp-13041
      author: Mikkel, Annika
       title: Cursus in Dante Alighieri’s prose books De vulgari eloquentia, De Monarchia and Convivio
        date: 2016-09-26
       words: 5038
      flesch: 71
     summary: The occurrence of cursus in De Monarchia Frequency %% Cursus planus 82 23.6% Cursus trispondaicus 28 8.0% The occurrence of cursus in De vulgari eloquentia and in De Monarchia Frequency %% Cursus planus 224 27.3% Cursus trispondaicus 64 7.8% Cursus velox 152 18.5% Cursus tardus 115 14.0% Miscellanea 267 32.5% Total 822 100.0% 113Cursus in Dante Alighieri’s prose books 3.2.
    keywords: convivio; cursus; dante; latin; prose; velox
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        item: #43 of 116
          id: smp-13042
      author: Říha, Jakub
       title: Summa versologica. Květa Sgallová, O českém verši. Praha: Karolinum, 2015, 436 pp.
        date: 2016-09-26
       words: 2243
      flesch: 57
     summary: Sgallová’s first contribution to research into Czech verse was a review of Josef Hrabák’s Studie o českém verši A chapter on Czech verse can be found in each of the nine volumes of SMP.
    keywords: czech; research; section; sgallová; verse; červenka
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        item: #44 of 116
          id: smp-13043
      author: Scherr, Barry P.
       title: Versification at the 2015 ASEEES Convention (November 2015, Philadelphia, USA)
        date: 2016-09-26
       words: 1759
      flesch: 47
     summary: Wachtel’s more general points were twofold: first, that verse scholars need to pay greater attention to hypermetrical stressing when describing the rhythmical tendencies of Russian verse, and, second, that the broad statistical data, in and of themselves, are not always adequate to describe what occurs in specific poems. Meanwhile, Kolmogorov himself wrote wrote a series of articles on Russian verse that have now (in 2015) been published in a collection edited by his frequent collaborator, Aleksandr Prokhorov.
    keywords: paper; russian; stress; verse
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        item: #45 of 116
          id: smp-13290
      author: Scherr, Barry P. P.
       title: To separate or not to separate: Stanza boundaries and poetic structure
        date: 2016-12-31
       words: 7279
      flesch: 66
     summary: Lines five through eight are relatively even, with the same amount of stressing on lines two, five and seven, which all tie for second in the number of stresses. This heavier stressing on the even lines further indicates that Akhmatova was creating a kind of back and forth rhythm between each pair of lines, thereby strengthening the notion that she was indeed thinking in terms of couplets – even though the use of Tak to begin line 5 and No to begin line 9 vaguely imply 4-line groupings in terms of the thematic structure.
    keywords: abab; boundaries; end; line; line stanzas; page; poem; quatrains; rhyme; scherr; second; stanzas; structure; syntactic; verse
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        item: #46 of 116
          id: smp-13293
      author: Gasparov, Mikhail
       title: Boris Yarkho’s works on literary theory
        date: 2016-12-31
       words: 9383
      flesch: 54
     summary: Literary works are indeed sometimes made to order, but this is usually “newspaper-template babble”; to “order” Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, the client should himself have the talent of Pushkin.11 The positivist prerequisites of Yarkho’s methodology fully explain his weak sides, which can be seen clearly enough from the aforementioned: his descrip- tiveness, mechanicism, and biologism. Yarkho planned his research in such a way as to gradually test his method in all fields of literary studies.
    keywords: comedies; gasparov; idea; indicator; literature; mikhail; number; research; roland; russian; science; study; theory; tragedies; work; yarkho
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        item: #47 of 116
          id: smp-13294
      author: Yarkho, Boris
       title: The elementary foundations of formal analysis
        date: 2016-12-31
       words: 8995
      flesch: 62
     summary: The composition of literary form § 1. – The concept of form These days a lot has been said about literary form, and not without reason. Therefore, if I venture to write a few lines on these issues, it is not because I want to argue with anyone, but only because I would like to introduce some clarity and simplicity to the question of the composition and the nature of literary form, and, perhaps, thus somehow facilitate practical work with liter- ary texts.*1 First and foremost, [we need] a definition of artistic form:
    keywords: analysis; boris; cases; elementary; elements; example; figures; form; foundations; greek; images; literary; number; order; russian; sound; study; time; types; words; work; yarkho
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        item: #48 of 116
          id: smp-13295
      author: Grünthal, Satu; Laamanen, Erika
       title: Versification: Metrics in practice, 25th–27th May 2016, Helsinki, Finland
        date: 2016-12-31
       words: 1914
      flesch: 44
     summary: Maria-Kristiina Lotman (University of Tartu) and Mihhail Lotman (University of Tartu / Tallinn University) introduced their new research project in which they study the relationship between metre and semantics by means of statistical-comparative analysis. Questions of Faroese poetry, both old and con- temporary, were discussed in two presentations: Daniel Galbraith (Stanford University) presented a constraint-based account of Faroese ballad metre, and the rhymes and rhythms in a modern bricolage of hip hop, romantic poetry and ballads (“Frá bygd til bý” by Swangah Dangah) was discussed by Dragana Cvetanovic, Satu Grünthal and Martina Huhtamäki (University of Helsinki).
    keywords: conference; helsinki; language; metre; metrics; poetry; university
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        item: #49 of 116
          id: smp-13558
      author: Tsur, Reuven
       title: Metre, rhythm and emotion in poetry. A cognitive approach
        date: 2017-08-07
       words: 13925
      flesch: 56
     summary: Such groupings are the performance patterns available to the reciter (Halle and Keyser declare that they have nothing to say about how such lines should be performed). Emotions involve devia- tion from normal levels of energy; e. g., low energy level may count toward such emotions as sadness or calm; high energy level may count toward such emotions as gladness or anger.
    keywords: divergent; emotion; gielgud; line; meaning; metric; milton; poetry; position; qualities; quality; reuven; rhyme; rhythm; sound; stress; syllables; tsur; words
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        item: #50 of 116
          id: smp-13559
      author: Weiskott, Eric
       title: Early English meter as a way of thinking
        date: 2017-08-07
       words: 9168
      flesch: 58
     summary: Ian Cornelius (2017) argues that Langland, unlike other alliterative poets, allowed himself the option of switching out of English alliterative meter and into Latin prose at the caesura: the ultimate Thule of metrical asymmetry. Bits of Latin psalms are ingested by Patience and Will just as they are ingested by English alliterative meter.
    keywords: alliterative; century; chaucer; english; gawain; langland; latin; line; medieval; meter; metrical; middle; pentameter; piers; plowman; poem; thinking; university; verse; way
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        item: #51 of 116
          id: smp-13560
      author: Shelya, Artjom; Sobchuk, Oleg
       title: The shortest species: how the length of Russian poetry changed (1750–1921)
        date: 2017-08-07
       words: 5486
      flesch: 57
     summary: In some sense, short poetry invented a way of being large by remaining small.11 Cultural evolution Quantitative observations on the length of Russian poetry reveal a long- term trend of change towards shorter forms. Short forms existed in the diverse population, and that diversity had disappeared, thus Figures 1 and 2 depict this most visible change, but they say little about short lyrical poetry.
    keywords: century; change; corpus; form; genre; length; lines; literary; literature; poems; poetry; size; species
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        item: #52 of 116
          id: smp-13561
      author: Caduff, Renzo
       title: The versification of the Romansh poet Andri Peer: the heptasyllable and hendecasyllable in his early free forms
        date: 2017-08-07
       words: 5291
      flesch: 65
     summary: It focuses on Andri Peer’s most frequently used verse lines in his early free forms: the heptasyl- labic and hendecasyllabic verse. For his later editions the heterometric poems (i.e. poems in free verse) are characteristic.
    keywords: andri; caduff; forms; hendecasyllable; heptasyllable; lansel; lines; peer; peider; poem; poetry; position; use; verse; versification
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        item: #53 of 116
          id: smp-13562
      author: Árnason, Kristján
       title: Prototypes and structures in eddic poetry
        date: 2017-08-07
       words: 11198
      flesch: 59
     summary: While the number and kinds of metrical positions and their linear sequencing determine a restricted set of verse types, a broad 111Prototypes and structures in eddic poetry latitude of alignment of these invariant metrical positions to diverse language materials results in a wide-ranging variation of verse types on the surface. We cannot go through all of this in this review, nor the details of the motivation for the conclusion at the end of Chapter 2 (pp. l62–163) with the first approximation of an overview of the system of verse types.
    keywords: drop; form; germanic; lift; lines; poetry; resolution; second; sievers; suzuki; syllable; type; verse
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        item: #54 of 116
          id: smp-13563
      author: Gasparov, Mikhail; Lotman, Mihhail; Rudnev, Pyotr; Tarlinskaja, Marina
       title: Approaches to verse theory in the works of Jaak Põldmäe
        date: 2017-08-07
       words: 7708
      flesch: 53
     summary: [On Estonian accentual verse]. [On Estonian accentual verse].
    keywords: estonian; gasparov; jaak; line; lotman; metrical; poetic; põldmäe; russian; syllables; systems; tartu; theory; typology; university; verse; versification
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        item: #55 of 116
          id: smp-13564
      author: Lotman, Mihhail
       title: Jaak Põldmäe 75
        date: 2017-08-07
       words: 556
      flesch: 57
     summary: After graduating from high school Põldmäe was admitted to the University of Tartu. Studia Metrica et Poetica sisu 4_1.indd Jaak Põldmäe 75 Mihhail Lotman On November 6, 2017, Jaak Põldmäe (1942–1979) would have become sev- enty-five years old.
    keywords: põldmäe; verse
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        item: #56 of 116
          id: smp-13565
      author: Oras, Janika; Sarv, Mari
       title: Conference on Finnic runo-song tradition
        date: 2017-08-07
       words: 3324
      flesch: 44
     summary: Studia Metrica et Poetica sisu 4_1.indd Conference on Finnic runo-song tradition Janika Oras, Mari Sarv The series of biannual conferences devoted to Finnic runo-song tradition in Tartu, Estonia had its ninth event “Seven skins of runo-song: various views on Finnic song tradition” on November 30 and December 1, 2016 at the Estonian Literary Museum. Folklorists have made efforts to analyse the body of knowledge and the pieces of tradition again and again and from different angles, to reach the better understanding of the functioning of runo-song in the traditional society, but also on the reasons and ideas underneath the collection process as well as on the function of archival collections in the contemporary society.
    keywords: folklore; mari; paper; runo; sarv; seto; song; song tradition; tradition; women
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        item: #57 of 116
          id: smp-13566
      author: Sarv, Mari
       title: In Memoriam: Arvo Krikmann (1939–2017)
        date: 2017-08-07
       words: 874
      flesch: 52
     summary: Arvo Krikmann (1939–2017) Mari Sarv Arvo Krikmann was, among many other things, an Estonian academician, folklorist, linguist, paremiologist, and humour researcher. Arvo Krikmann’s doctoral dissertation, Introspections into Minor Forms of Folklore, Vol. 1.
    keywords: arvo; folklore; krikmann
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        item: #58 of 116
          id: smp-13955
      author: Chisholm, David
       title: Daniel Call’s Schocker: German Knittelvers in the late twentieth century
        date: 2017-12-31
       words: 7574
      flesch: 73
     summary: 9Daniel Call’s Schocker: German Knittelvers in the late twentieth century seedy, untalented and brutally ambitious Austrian provincial theatre manager, aptly named Dr. Viel, whose ultimate goal is to take over the directorship of the venerated, world-famous Vienna Burgtheater, also known by Austrians and referred to in this play as “Die Wiener Burg”. The eighteen scenes (“Bilder”) of Schocker include – in a different sequence than in Goethe’s play – “Prolog im Himmel”, “Vorspiel auf dem Theater”, “Dr. Viel am Schreibpulte” (a ref- erence to the stage direction at the beginning of Goethe’s opening “Nacht” scene), “Spaziergang,” two “Studierzimmer” scenes, “Kantine im Keller” (a play on Goethe’s scene “Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig”), “Talentschmiede” (with obvious references to Goethe’s “Hexenküche“ scene), “Foyer” (with some par- allels to Goethe’s “Garten”, “Gartenhäuschen” and “Marthens Garten” scenes), “Garderobe” (with clear parallels between Call’s character “Fräulein Umlaut” and Goethes “Marthe Schwerdtlein”), and “Garten” (in which Schocker per- suades Fräulein Umlaut to kick Susannchen out of her house so that she must go back and stay with Dr. Viel, where he will more easily be able to seduce her).
    keywords: century; das; david; der; des; die; ein; faust; german; goethe; gretchen; ich; ihr; ist; knittelvers; mich; mir; play; scene; schocker; sie; susannchen; theatre; umlaut; und; viel; wie; words
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        item: #59 of 116
          id: smp-13956
      author: Jackson, MacDonald P.
       title: Fin-de-Siècle Yeats: Artistry and affect in “The Cap and Bells”
        date: 2017-12-31
       words: 4121
      flesch: 75
     summary: Comparison between the version that Yeats first published in The National Observer in 1894 and the revised version included in The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) reveals Yeats’s increased technical skill. In tracking Yeats’s laborious progress towards his later style, associated with such enduring anthology-pieces as “Easter 1916”, “Sailing to Byzantium”, 1
    keywords: bells; cap; heart; jester; poem; queen; soul; yeats
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        item: #60 of 116
          id: smp-13957
      author: Trunin, Mikhail
       title: Towards the concept of semantic halo
        date: 2017-12-31
       words: 10160
      flesch: 65
     summary: Mikhail L. Gasparov pointed out that “five semantic shades” are observed around trochaic pentameter. This poem has attracted a significant number of monographic studies; however, scholars have never examined the poem’s meter and its connection with the semantic halo of trochaic pentameter.
    keywords: article; concept; death; gasparov; halo; lermontov; levin; lotman; love; mandelshtam; masteritsa; meter; mikhail; pentameter; poem; road; russian; semantic; shapir; taranovsky; theme; verse; word
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        item: #61 of 116
          id: smp-13959
      author: Martínez Cantón, Clara; Plecháč, Petr; Ruiz Fabo, Pablo; Seláf, Levente
       title: Plotting Poetry: On mechanically enhanced reading, 5–7 October 2017, Basel, Switzerland
        date: 2017-12-31
       words: 5021
      flesch: 47
     summary: The second keynote of the conference, Valérie Beaudouin (Télécom ParisTech) presented the methods and results of metrical analysis of hexa- meter in classical French drama and 19th century French poetry. On mechanically enhanced reading from poetry readings at several levels: syllable, word, line and stanza, sense units and musical phrases.
    keywords: analysis; authors; century; corpus; data; metrical; poems; poetry; reading; results; talk; texts; university; verse
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        item: #62 of 116
          id: smp-13960
      author: Lilja, Eva
       title: NorLyr: A Scandinavian network in poetry research
        date: 2017-12-31
       words: 1884
      flesch: 65
     summary: A Scandinavian network in poetry research For the moment there is a strong tendency to a new wave of politics in poetry, and this will be our theme for next year. We are 141NorLyr: A Scandinavian network in poetry research stimulated to look into themes that are outside our usual competences, well aware that the others are in the same unstable situation.
    keywords: modernisme; network; nordisk; poetry; research
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        item: #63 of 116
          id: smp-13961
      author: Novikov, Kadri; Arukask, Anni
       title: Frontiers in Comparative Metrics III, 29–30 September 2017, Tallinn, Estonia
        date: 2017-12-31
       words: 3682
      flesch: 40
     summary: Petr Plecháč (Institute of Czech Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), Klemens Bobenhausen (Pearl Communication & Consulting GmbH) and Benjamin Hammerich (ETH Zurich) presented another collaborative paper introducing a new stylometrical possibility for authorship attribution of verse texts, which has until now been limited to a few case studies. Also, a novel way of verse analysis was introduced by Evgeny Kazartsev (National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg) who, in co-operation with Victor Vashchenkov, has developed a multifunctional program system, which, based on text prosody, allows to construct two types of probability models of versification mechanisms in different languages – either rigid (with a non- linear verse line filling) or looser (allowing a linear formation of verse lines).
    keywords: analysis; english; lines; meter; metrics; paper; poetry; russian; texts; university; verse
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        item: #64 of 116
          id: smp-14194
      author: Russom, Geoffrey
       title: Optimality Theory, Language Typology, and Universalist Metrics
        date: 2018-08-05
       words: 8574
      flesch: 64
     summary: Abstract: In Russom (2011), I defended a universalist hypothesis that the constituents of poetic form are abstracted from natural linguistic constituents: metrical positions from phonological constituents, usually syllables; metrical feet from morphological constituents, usually words; and metrical lines from syntactic constituents, usually sentences. For analysis of iambic pentameter, I posit metrical positions abstracted from syllables, metrical feet abstracted from words, and metrical lines abstracted from sentences (Russom 2011: 353–355; Russom 2017: 22–28).1 An important corollary to my initial hypothesis is that norms for realization of a metrical constituent are abstracted from norms for the corresponding linguistic con- stituent.
    keywords: english; foot; language; line; meter; position; rules; russom; sentence; stress; syllables; verb; verse; word
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        item: #65 of 116
          id: smp-14195
      author: Freebury-Jones, Darren; Tarlinskaja, Marina; Dahl, Marcus
       title: Attributing John Marston’s Marginal Plays
        date: 2018-08-05
       words: 9137
      flesch: 63
     summary: 33Attributing John Marston’s Marginal Plays We also tested the fifty most frequent lexical words, using the software programs Wordstat5 and QDA Miner.6 We examined Marston texts plus texts from the canons of Dekker, Jonson, and Day. The Family of Love 2.7 6.8 0.9 35.2 14.2 30.1 5.5 4.6 0 The Insatiate Countess 2.6 7.0 4.0 25.9 22.0 24.3 9.8 3.2 1.2 Histriomastix is consistent with the patterns found for unaided Marston plays.
    keywords: act; authorship; barry; countess; dekker; dominion; family; histriomastix; insatiate; john; love; lust; marston; plays; texts; words
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        item: #66 of 116
          id: smp-14672
      author: Tsur, Reuven; Gafni, Chen
       title: Enjambment – Irony, Wit, Emotion. A Case Study Suggesting Wider Principles
        date: 2018-12-31
       words: 7804
      flesch: 55
     summary: According to the foregoing analysis, there are three different ways to perform an enjambment, with different perceived qualities; and the border line between “wit” and “irony” is rather fuzzy (at any rate, many literary scholars use the two terms interchangeably). Assuming different performances of the enjambment, both logically accept- able response patterns support our hypothesis.
    keywords: claims; enjambment; excerpt; irony; meaning; participants; performance; qualities; responses; study; tsur
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        item: #67 of 116
          id: smp-14674
      author: Plecháč, Petr; Bobenhausen, Klemens; Hammerich, Benjamin
       title: Versification and authorship attribution. A pilot study on Czech, German, Spanish, and English poetry
        date: 2018-12-31
       words: 8275
      flesch: 64
     summary: and as we may also observe in Figure 4 – word frequencies generally tend to decrease rapidly after the top ranks (Zipf ’s law). A Survey of modern authorship attribution methods.
    keywords: attribution; authorship; bobenhausen; burrows; cosine; delta; distance; figure; frequencies; petr; plecháč; samples; shakespeare; text; versification; words
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        item: #68 of 116
          id: smp-14675
      author: deCastro-Arrazola, Varuṇ
       title: Testing the robustness of final strictness in verse lines
        date: 2018-12-31
       words: 7853
      flesch: 59
     summary: 61Testing the robustness of final strictness in verse lines Some of the cited examples consist of completely stringent, fixed phe- nomena which mark the right edge of lines somehow, e. g. by requiring the presence of specific phonemes, words or pitches. Nevertheless, it does allow us to analyse the relative unigram consistency related to syllable type regulation across line positions, and across corpora.
    keywords: end; entropy; language; line; position; relpos; sample; sanskrit; seh; stress; strictness; syllable; template; verse
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        item: #69 of 116
          id: smp-14676
      author: Polilova, Vera
       title: Spanish Romancero in Russian and the semantization of verse form
        date: 2018-12-31
       words: 11171
      flesch: 61
     summary: Further, I discuss (2) when and how the trochaic tetrameters rhyming on even lines (XRXR) – originally used in translations of Spanish romances in German and English poetry – became the equivalent of romance verse in the Russian tradition. The present article is the outcome of my research on the poetics of Russian translations of Spanish romances and original Russian poems with “Spanish” motifs written between 1789 and the 1930s.
    keywords: assonance; balmont; clausula; fffm; form; heine; herder; lines; model; moskva; original; pattern; poem; poetry; poets; polilova; romance; romancero; russian; semantization; spanish; tetrameter; tradition; translations; trochaic; trochee; unrhymed; use; vera; verse; verse form
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        item: #70 of 116
          id: smp-14677
      author: Furuseth, Sissel
       title: Metrics and versification in poetry and song: the 14th Nordic conference on metrics, 13–15 September, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden
        date: 2018-12-31
       words: 1278
      flesch: 36
     summary: This is probably due to the power of the empirical events which are in the focus of attention in research where the exam- ples almost speak for themselves, whereas metrical studies at a more abstract level tend to create epistemic conflicts, between generativists and cognitivists, for instance, or between diachronic and synchronic oriented researchers. The keynote lectures pinpointed the central coordinates within the field of metrical studies, even though the most marked differences between quan- titative and qualitative approaches became visible in the paper sessions.
    keywords: conference; metrics; song; studies; versification
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        item: #71 of 116
          id: smp-14678
      author: Kiparsky, Paul
       title: Morris Halle (1923–2018)
        date: 2018-12-31
       words: 4874
      flesch: 57
     summary: In his subsequent work on meter Halle switched to a mixed theory that con- ceived meter as a set of parsing operations, but still governed by constraints. This led Halle to investigate, in collaboration with 119Morris Halle (1923–2018) S. J. Keyser, the role of stress in metrical verse.
    keywords: english; features; halle; jakobson; kiparsky; language; linguistics; morris; new; paul; phonology; stress; theory
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        item: #72 of 116
          id: smp-15430
      author: Tarlinskaja, Marina
       title: Evolution of Verse Form, Plots and Characters in English Plays (mid-16th to mid-19th centuries)
        date: 2019-08-29
       words: 4807
      flesch: 60
     summary: The tempo of declamation must have changed: the syllabic structure of verse lines lost its strict count, and two or even three syl- lables began to be inserted between stresses on metrically strong (S ) syllabic positions. Such lines would be disallowed in Shakespeare’s verse.
    keywords: baroque; english; form; line; love; plays; stressing; syllable; verse
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        item: #73 of 116
          id: smp-15431
      author: Frog, -
       title: The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?
        date: 2019-08-29
       words: 24306
      flesch: 50
     summary: The poetic form’s uniformity across Finnic language areas in spite of its ‘foreign’ metrical features along with the range of genres with which it was used are considered indicators of the poetic form’s spread with language, forming an argument that the tetrameter emerged within an environ- ment that also produced Late Proto-Finnic, and then spread with Late Proto-Finnic language and culture through areas where other Finnic language forms were spoken. An argument is presented that North Germanic contacts also produced systematic verse-internal alliteration in Finnic languages.
    keywords: alliteration; contacts; creolization; culture; eds; emergence; features; finland; finnic; form; frog; germanic; helsinki; language; late; middle; north; poetry; positions; proto; rhythm; spread; stress; syllabic; syllables; system; tetrameter; traditions; use; verse; words
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        item: #74 of 116
          id: smp-15432
      author: Ploom, Ülar
       title: On the Poetic of the Double Point and Circle in Dante’s Paradiso 30 and in Desmond Hogan’s Short Story “The Last Time”
        date: 2019-08-29
       words: 6550
      flesch: 72
     summary: Studia Metrica et Poetica sisu 6_1.indd On the Poetic of the Double Point and Circle in Dante’s Paradiso 30 and in Desmond Hogan’s Short Story “The Last Time” Ülar Ploom* Abstract: This essay discusses the interaction of the divine point of light and Beatrice as the unattainable point of revelation for Dante in Paradiso 30.
    keywords: beatrice; centre; che; christ; circle; dante; hogan; jamesy; love; maria; paradiso; poetic; point; space; understanding
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        item: #75 of 116
          id: smp-15433
      author: Feshchenko, Vladimir
       title: Graphic Translation of Experimental Verse as a Strategy of Poetic Text’s Transcreation
        date: 2019-08-29
       words: 5032
      flesch: 62
     summary: Keywords: experimental poetry; spatial design; graphic translation; autographic/allo- graphic text In translation theory as well as in poetics, scholars have paid little attention so far to the transfer of verse design between the source and the target languages. Graphic translation specifically applies to visually-oriented avant-garde and experimental texts.
    keywords: cummings; figure; poem; poetry; russian; text; translation; verse
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        item: #76 of 116
          id: smp-15434
      author: Lotman, Mihhail; Pilshchikov, Igor; Lotman, Maria-Kristiina
       title: Peter Grzybek (22.11.1957 – 29.05.2019)
        date: 2019-08-29
       words: 1131
      flesch: 59
     summary: References Baur, Rupprecht S.; Chlosta, Christoph; Grzybek, Peter 1995. Fan, Fenxiang; Grzybek, Peter; Altman, Gabriel 2010.
    keywords: eds; grzybek; length; lotman; peter; word
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        item: #77 of 116
          id: smp-16457
      author: Pilshchikov, Igor
       title: Rhythmical Ambiguity: Verbal Forms and Verse Forms
        date: 2019-12-31
       words: 7074
      flesch: 66
     summary: Just as in a heterometric poem “[metrically] ambiguous lines can serve as a convenient transition between fragments written in different meters” (Gasparov 1974: 253), rhythmically ambiguous lines in a monometric poem can serve as a transition between fragments that use different rhythmical patterns. However, out of six fully-stressed lines two can be considered ambiguous, and both are isomorphic with Form IV (see Figure 1).
    keywords: ambiguity; form; gasparov; ictus; igor; iii; jakobson; lines; meters; pilshchikov; poem; rhythmical; russian; stress; stresses; taranovsky; tomashevsky; trans; verse; vii; words
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        item: #78 of 116
          id: smp-16458
      author: Lotman, Mihhail
       title: The semiotics of verse rhythm and comparative rhythmics: Vladimir Nabokov’s and Jurgis Baltrušaitis’s binary tetrameters from a typological perspective
        date: 2019-12-31
       words: 9836
      flesch: 63
     summary: This means that Nabokov is considerably sharper and more modern than Wilson, who stood confined to the so-called school metrics: To Nabokov, verse 81The semiotics of verse rhythm and comparative rhythmics feet are conventional terms that represent an abstract system, but not the actual pronunciation: the differentiation between versification (stikhoslozhenie) and verse pronunciation (stikhoproiznesenie) was common in Russian verse theory.4 Andrei Bely created the foundations of Russian statistical verse doctine, but by the 1940s his views and methods of analysis were largely outdated due to the work of Boris Tomashevsky, Viktor Zhirmunsky and others. The semiotics of verse rhythm and comparative rhythmics: Vladimir Nabokov’s and Jurgis Baltrušaitis’s binary tetrameters from a typological perspective Mihhail Lotman*1 Abstract: The article discusses the problems of poetic rhythm in two aspects.
    keywords: analysis; andrei; baltrušaitis; bely; century; compare; english; forms; line; lithuanian; meter; nabokov; poem; position; rhythm; rhythmics; russian; stress; verse; verse rhythm; ° °
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        item: #79 of 116
          id: smp-16460
      author: Birnbaum, David J.; Bories, Anne-Sophie; Haider, Thomas N.; Sarv, Mari
       title: Plotting Poetry 3. Conference report
        date: 2019-12-31
       words: 5066
      flesch: 26
     summary: Mediated access to information in the corpus is also pro- vided through the DISCOver front end, a web interface that offers predictive faceted searching and, in a digital workstation format, interactive textual and graphic reports about formal poetic features at user-controlled levels of granu- larity. The goal in introducing these formal annotations is to look for rela- tionships between formal poetic features and semantic content, e.g., do we find different rhythmic structures in clusters around such different semantic environments as “love” and “death”?
    keywords: analysis; conference; corpus; data; features; language; methods; poems; poetry; reading; report; rhyme; texts; use
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        item: #80 of 116
          id: smp-16770
      author: Tarlinskaja, Marina
       title: Fletcher’s Versification
        date: 2020-10-13
       words: 11986
      flesch: 68
     summary: The break after syllable 7 often correlates with feminine line endings: there is more space for a second hemistich if the line has a feminine ending. Enclitic phrases, both in mid-line and at the end of the line, including heavy feminine line endings, tend to incorporate mono- syllables with vague semantics and a reduced phrasal accentuation: else, too, then (“in LOVE too”, “He’s DEAD then?”).
    keywords: compound; endings; feminine; fletcher; heavy; lines; maid; massinger; number; plays; run; shakespeare; syllable; verse
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        item: #81 of 116
          id: smp-16771
      author: Behrmann, Alfred
       title: A Note on some of Hölderlin’s Epigrams in English Translation
        date: 2020-10-13
       words: 5067
      flesch: 70
     summary: Friedrich Hölderlin. Friedrich Hölderlin.
    keywords: die; english; epigrams; german; hamburger; hölderlin; line; poet; sadness; translation; version
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        item: #82 of 116
          id: smp-16772
      author: Saavedra Carballido, Jesús M.
       title: Juan de Mena’s arte mayor verse in Laberinto de fortuna: Identifying and describing a Spanish dolnik
        date: 2020-10-13
       words: 21614
      flesch: 60
     summary: Likewise, an unstressed maximum can be immediately followed by another unstressed maximum: witness the realization of the position at the end of the initial colon of l. 1437 of Laberinto, scanned as either “tanto que los # que de allí pelea{van}” (X x X X #…, 4#5 or 4#6 64 Jesús M. Saavedra Carballido In the following 5#6 example the first head of the compound malamente = badly acts as a maximum, but the head of the preceding atonic word que does not: (20) e los matemáticos que malamente (l. 1031) X X x x X#x x x X x X {x} Excluding the optional nonstress at line end, arte mayor lines have from eight – usually nine – to twelve syllables.5 Clarke’s description is quite detailed, yet it fails to explain the syllable count, the exact distribution of stresses, the precise nature of the midline boundary and the relation between the two parts of the line.
    keywords: arte; arte mayor; cola; colon; dolnik; example; laberinto; lines; maxima; maximum; mayor; mena; metre; piera; positions; que; rhythm; spanish; stresses; syllables; verse; vowels; words
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        item: #83 of 116
          id: smp-16773
      author: Arukask, Anni
       title: The Metrical Structure of the Sapphic Hendecasyllable and Sappho’s Aiolikon in Lesbian Poetry
        date: 2020-10-13
       words: 5026
      flesch: 65
     summary: The occurrence of heavy syllables was 83.93% and 90.48% in the position of anceps and brevis in longo respectively, leaving 16.07% and 9.52% for light syllables. In the position of brevis in longo, the occurrence of heavy syllables was 96.3% and 3.7% for light syllables.
    keywords: aiolikon; anceps; brevis; light; lines; longo; positions; sapphic; sappho; syllables
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        item: #84 of 116
          id: smp-16774
      author: Pilshchikov, Igor; Polilova, Vera
       title: Quantitative Approaches to Versification: Conference report (June 24–26, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic)
        date: 2020-10-13
       words: 9509
      flesch: 49
     summary: For instance, 10 syllable lines can belong to one of 22 standard patterns (or rhythmical forms, as the scholars of Russian verse habitually called them in the discussion). The afternoon section of the second day was devoted to Russian verse.
    keywords: analysis; approaches; conference; distribution; english; gasparov; language; line; meter; paper; pilshchikov; poems; poetry; russian; skulacheva; spanish; structure; syllabic; tetrameter; texts; verse; versification; words
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        item: #85 of 116
          id: smp-16775
      author: Belousova, Anastasia; Pilshchikov, Igor; Polilova, Vera
       title: Sergei Kormilov (06.06.1951–20.06.2020)
        date: 2020-10-13
       words: 2361
      flesch: 55
     summary: Sergei Kormilov (a photo by Vera Polilova) Sergei Kormilov (06.06.1951–20.06.2020) Anastasia Belousova, Igor Pilshchikov, Vera Polilova* Sergei Ivanovich Kormilov was born in Moscow and spent the entirety of his academic career at Moscow State University. Kormilov devoted special articles to these scholars, 142 Anastasia Belousova, Igor Pilshchikov, Vera Polilova both of whom he survived, and compared their research methodologies (see Kormilov 2012a and 2012b).
    keywords: filologija; ivanovich; kormilov; moskovskogo; moskva; sergei; sergei ivanovich; serija; universiteta; verse
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        item: #86 of 116
          id: smp-16776
      author: Lotman, Mihhail
       title: Ain Kaalep (04.06.1926–09.06.2020)
        date: 2020-10-13
       words: 1979
      flesch: 53
     summary: Kaalep left a significant imprint on the research of Estonian verse. Kaalep categorized five systems of versification that appear in Estonian verse both in theory and in practice: quantitative, syllabic, syllabic-accentual, accentual, and free verse.
    keywords: ain; kaalep; lotman; poetry; verse; versification
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        item: #87 of 116
          id: smp-17149
      author: Lotman, Maria-Kristiina; Viiding, Kristi
       title: Verse Forms and Metres in Livonian Humanist Poetry: David Hilchen and his Ancient Models
        date: 2020-12-31
       words: 7345
      flesch: 57
     summary: The dactylic hexameter in its variety and flexibility In Hilchen’s poetic corpus, hexameter and its various derivatives in stanzaic forms constitute a sufficiently large sample (879 lines, that is, 67,8% of his total number of verses) for statistical analysis, allowing for comparison of verses both with each other and with the verses of several ancient and humanist Neo-Latin poets. The proportions of different verse forms in Hilchen’s poetry Among the stichic metres, Hilchen’s poetry contains more dactylic hexameters (altogether ca 28% of his verses), but also hendecasyllables and Asclepiadean verse.
    keywords: elegiac; example; foot; forms; hexameter; hilchen; humanist; k k; kristi; latin; metres; poems; poetry; proportion; riga; stichic; verse; viiding
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        item: #88 of 116
          id: smp-17150
      author: Freebury-Jones, Darren
       title: John Fletcher’s Collaborator on The Noble Gentleman
        date: 2020-12-31
       words: 8001
      flesch: 60
     summary: Th e only other playwright in Rizvi’s corpus who employs the bigram (two-word phrase), “d’ye mock”, is James Shirley, who was not writing for the King’s Men when Th e Noble Gentleman was composed. Th e play was included in both the fi rst (1647) and second (1679)
    keywords: authorship; beaumont; collaborator; fletcher; ford; gentleman; king; men; oras; play; portions
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        item: #89 of 116
          id: smp-17151
      author: Wachtel, Michael
       title: Radishchev’s “Bova” and Its Place in the History of Russian Folkloric Stylization
        date: 2020-12-31
       words: 12030
      flesch: 68
     summary: In addition to his poems, Radishchev wrote two lengthy and revealing prose statements about Russian verse. A decade later Radishchev devoted another work to the subject of Russian verse and versification.
    keywords: bova; example; fall; folkloric; form; gasparov; history; karamzin; line; meter; michael; place; poem; poetry; poets; radishchev; russian; second; stress; stresses; stylization; syllable; syllabo; taranovsky; tetrameter; tonic; verse; versification; wachtel; words; work; zapadov
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        item: #90 of 116
          id: smp-17152
      author: Lilja, Eva
       title: Movement and Balance. A comment on Derek Attridge’s Moving Words
        date: 2020-12-31
       words: 7783
      flesch: 72
     summary: Th e poem moves forward but the repetition causes the motion to cease. Phrase shift / Enjambment > Th e poem consists of fi ve stanzas, fi ve closed parts:
    keywords: attridge; cation; cureton; poem; poetry; repetition; rhythm; time; tsur
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        item: #91 of 116
          id: smp-17153
      author: Lotman, Mihhail; Pilshchikov, Igor
       title: Kiril Taranovsky and his Greatest Work
        date: 2020-12-31
       words: 3011
      flesch: 60
     summary: On the other hand, there existed a general concept of the phonological basis of Russian verse meters, developed by R. Jakobson and N. Trubetzkoy, which was not, however, tested on suffi ciently large statistical 113Kiril Taranovsky and his Greatest Work material. Th is was a principally novel approach to the evolution of verse, albeit one that continued in the tradition of Russian verse studies as pioneered by Andrei Belyi (1910) and developed by Georgy Shengeli (1923) and Boris Tomashevsky (1929).
    keywords: jakobson; kiril; lotman; meters; rhythm; russian; slavic; taranovsky; verse; work
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        item: #92 of 116
          id: smp-17155
      author: Grünthal, Satu
       title: Annika Mikkel, Rütmilised lauselõpud 14. sajandi ladinakeelsetes ning itaalia rahvakeelsetes proosateostes: (PhD dissertation, 197 pages with Appendix, University of Tartu Press)
        date: 2020-12-31
       words: 990
      flesch: 50
     summary: In addition to the Estonian tradition of rhythmical and metrical stud- ies, Mikkel’s thesis follows a specifi c path among metrical studies in general, namely that of prose rhythm studies. Th e fi eld of prose rhythm studies is challenging, and not inhabited by many.
    keywords: analysis; prose
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        item: #93 of 116
          id: smp-18259
      author: Tsur, Reuven
       title: Acoustics and Resonance in Poetry: The Psychological Reality of Rhyme in Baudelaire’s “Les Chats”
        date: 2021-10-14
       words: 12947
      flesch: 56
     summary: The significant interaction between Visual Presentation and Verse-Last Words and the results of separate analyses for verse and prose showed that the differ- ences in the processing of rhyme words were only observed in the original verse form. Neither initial process- ing nor total reading time differed significantly between rhyme words and all other words.
    keywords: effect; eye; information; jakobson; line; meaning; memory; patterns; perception; plosives; poetry; readers; reading; resonance; resonant; reuven; rhyme; sound; speech; tsur; verse; words
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        item: #94 of 116
          id: smp-18261
      author: Oras, Janika; Pärtlas, Žanna; Sarv, Mari; Kalkun, Andreas
       title: The Metrics of Seto Choral Laments in the Context of Runosong Metrics
        date: 2021-10-14
       words: 25839
      flesch: 62
     summary: Syllable structures in the second half of the lines in Seto choral laments (syllable structures are listed if there are 10 or more lines in both lament genres together, more rare syllable structures are brought together under ‘Other’), the number is shown in total and separately for both genres (B – bridal laments, D – death laments). To understand the structural differences in the versification of Seto runosongs and laments we have compared the analysis results of lament lines with the analysis results of the line structures of the two runosong groups – the songs with a stable line length and refrain songs.
    keywords: bridal; choral; death laments; group; half; laments; line; metrics; musical; oras; performance; performance rhythm; refrain; rhythm structure; runosong; sarv; second; seto; seto laments; songs; stress; structure; sung; syllable; syllable structure; unit; verse; verse structure; words
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        item: #95 of 116
          id: smp-18262
      author: Akimova, Marina
       title: “The Trout Breaks the Ice” by Mikhail Kuzmin: Verse and Grammar
        date: 2021-10-14
       words: 6598
      flesch: 68
     summary: Compare other observations on verb forms in Kuzmin’s poetry: Malmstad 1989; Berson 2000. In Kuzmin’s poetry, except “The Trout”, there are only six (!) more examples of verb forms in the titles: 1) “Плод зреет” (“The Fruit is Ripening”), a cycle of lyrical poems (1915–1917), 2) “Пушкин едет на дуэль” (“Pushkin is riding to the duel”, 1927, dubia), and headers of four short poems inside the cycle “Панорама с выносками” (“A Panorama with Footnotes”, 1926) from the book The Trout Breaks the Ice (1929)4: 3) “Мечты пристыжают действительность” (“The Dreams Shame the Reality”), 4) “Уединение питает страсти” (“The Solitude Nourishes Passions”), 5) “Темные улицы рождают темные чувства” (“Dark Streets Generate Dark Feelings”), and 6) “Добрые чувства побеждают время и пространство” (“Kind Feelings Conquer Time and Space”).
    keywords: breaks; chapters; dynamic; forms; ice; introduction; kuzmin; past; pentameter; poem; present; russian; static; tense; trout; verb
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        item: #96 of 116
          id: smp-18263
      author: Prieto Mendoza, Alejandro Augusto
       title: Meter in Traditional Kakataibo Chants
        date: 2021-10-14
       words: 6647
      flesch: 61
     summary: Regarding meter, Kakataibo chants exhibit patterns relevant for the cross-linguistic study of line and meter typology. In §3, I recap some cultural topics about Kakataibo chants.
    keywords: bana; chants; following; kakataibo; light; line; meter; moras; syllables; vowel; xakwati
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        item: #97 of 116
          id: smp-18264
      author: Polilova, Vera
       title: Russian Verse Studies after Gasparov
        date: 2021-10-14
       words: 8888
      flesch: 53
     summary: Metrics and Rhythmics, 1974; An Outline of the History of Russian Verse, 19841, 20002; Russian Verse in Commentaries, 19871, 19932, 20013, and An Outline of the History of European Verse, 19891, 20032, translated into English as A History of European Versification, 1996); see also Italian, 1993, and Czech editions, 2012), in the opinion of many scholars and general readers, has become a manifesto of the completeness of the edifice of Russian verse studies. It aims to present the current state of affairs in Russian verse studies, to sum up some of their recent achievements, to identify the main controversies that act as their growth points, and to highlight the most promis- ing areas of current research into versification.
    keywords: dolnik; gasparov; liapin; lotman; metres; metrics; mikhail; moskva; pilshchikov; polilova; research; rhythm; russian; shapir; skulacheva; stikh; studies; talks; theory; vera; verse; verse studies
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        item: #98 of 116
          id: smp-18719
      author: Tarlinskaja, Marina
       title: Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Shelley’s The Cenci: Versification
        date: 2021-12-31
       words: 8631
      flesch: 67
     summary: The actual verse of Baroque and of the Romantic The Cenci imitating the Baroque Macbeth has, like the speech model of verse, a dip on syllable 8: fre- quent stressing on syllable 10 causes, by contrast, a dip on syllable 8. Series2 Series3 2 4 6 8 10 Syllabic Position 100% 60% Macbeth The Cenci 70% 80% 90% - - + - - Charles The First Fig. 4. In Macbeth Shakespeare is describing the murder of the king.
    keywords: baroque; cenci; lines; macbeth; plays; shakespeare; shelley; stressing; syllable; syntactic; verse; versification
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        item: #99 of 116
          id: smp-18720
      author: Orekhov, Boris
       title: Bashkir Verse from the Turkic Perspective
        date: 2021-12-31
       words: 4934
      flesch: 61
     summary: Therefore, we have the opportunity to compare the 34 Boris Orekhov descriptions of Turkic verse systems made by twentieth-century Turkologists and what we observe in Bashkir verse. Conclusion Scholars of Turkic verse provided ample descriptions of their data.
    keywords: bashkir; dissertation; forms; kyuy; lines; meter; poetry; syllable; syllable lines; synopsis; turkic; verse; versification; words
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        item: #100 of 116
          id: smp-18721
      author: Lomidze, Tamar
       title: On the Character of Georgian Verse
        date: 2021-12-31
       words: 5477
      flesch: 64
     summary: The same researchers believe that Georgian stress is movable, as it changes places if the number of syllables and grammatical forms change. This issue is important in terms of studying Georgian stress histori- cally
    keywords: georgian; knight; panther; shairi; skin; stress; stresses; syllable; verse; words
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        item: #101 of 116
          id: smp-18722
      author: Lotman, Rebekka
       title: The Semiotics of New Era Poetry: Estonian Instagram and Rap Poetry
        date: 2021-12-31
       words: 9149
      flesch: 54
     summary: Social media poetry is often seen as falling into the first category. In Estonia, digital literature has been studied through multiple perspectives by Piret Viires, who has written about the emergence of digital modernism (Viires 2013), the periodization of digital literature (Viires 2017), and the functions and main characteristics of social media poetry (Viires 2020), on which this analysis is partly based.
    keywords: 2019; author; book; digital; estonian; example; instagram; instagram poetry; literature; meaning; media; media poetry; new; poem; poetry; poets; rap; rap poetry; reader; räpp
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        item: #102 of 116
          id: smp-18723
      author: Salvador-Gimeno, Marina
       title: Alliteration as a Rhythmic Device in Latin Literature: General Clarifications and Proposal for a New Vertical Variant, Alliteration Before or After the Caesura
        date: 2021-12-31
       words: 8112
      flesch: 62
     summary: Metrical notation: | caesura and || line break. Memores |… ||… Musis |…, Claud. 26.5–7; or … | Palantia… || … | PRaeclara … || … | PRimum …, Lucr.
    keywords: aen; aeneis; alliteration; caesura; catullus; claud; claudian; correspondence; definition; device; enn; examples; ferrarino; gimeno; hemistichs; latin; lines; literature; lucr; lucretius; marina; metamorphoses; namasianus; new; ovid; poetry; post; rapt; repetition; rutilius; salvador; sounds; start; terms; tosi; type; verg; virgil; words
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        item: #103 of 116
          id: smp-18724
      author: Taranovsky, Kiril ; Feinberg, Lawrence E. 
       title: Russian Binary Meters. Part Two. Chapters 5–6
        date: 2021-12-31
       words: 30280
      flesch: 71
     summary: Karamzin does not differ from the poets of the nineteenth century, but his much younger contemporary Katenin belongs, on the basis of stress percentages for the first and, to some extent, fifth syllables, to the eighteenth century, while his percentage for the third syllable puts him in the nineteenth century. 93 To be sure, Lomonosov was translating from the French; however, he had obviously made a thorough study of German metrics and read a sufficient number of German lines before deciding to replace the French syllabic line with the four-foot trochee after the German model.
    keywords: bipartite; cases; century; drive; eighteenth; figure; foot; foot iamb; foot trochee; fourth; icti; lermontov; line; lomonosov; lyrics; meters; nineteenth; percentage; period; poetry; poets; poležaev; puškin; rhythmic; russian; second; stresses; structure; syllable; syllable line; table; taranovsky; trediakovskij; verse; žukovskij; диаграмма
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        item: #104 of 116
          id: smp-18725
      author: Lilja, Eva
       title: Reuven Tsur (1932–2021)
        date: 2021-12-31
       words: 1332
      flesch: 62
     summary: Reuven Tsur (1932–2021) Eva Lilja*1 Reuven Tsur (1932–2021) has left us after many years of being an inspiring presence.
    keywords: poetics; reuven; tsur; university
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        item: #105 of 116
          id: smp-19202
      author: Plecháč, Petr; Kolár, Robert
       title: Metre and Semantics in the Poetry of Czech Post-Symbolists Accessed via LDA Topic Modelling
        date: 2022-09-01
       words: 4376
      flesch: 62
     summary: On poetic topic modeling: Extracting themes and motifs from a corpus of Spanish poetry. In addition, we focus exclusively on the Lumír, Ruch and post-symbolist groups since most symbolist poems are written in iambic metre or vers libre and contain very few trochees.
    keywords: czech; group; iamb; lumír; metre; plecháč; poems; poetry; symbolists; topic; trochee
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        item: #106 of 116
          id: smp-19203
      author: Sarkisov, Ivan
       title: Comparative Description of Meters in Thai and Burmese Poetries
        date: 2022-09-01
       words: 6616
      flesch: 68
     summary: Given the above, I believe that the main challenge with regards to the Thai poetic meters is to ‘translate’ the traditional classification and description of Thai meters into the terms of modern science of versification. The existing scientific papers on Thai meters, do not go beyond examining the meters within the traditional framework.
    keywords: burmese; description; language; line; meters; number; poetry; syllabic; syllables; thai; tone
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        item: #107 of 116
          id: smp-19204
      author: Belousova, Anastasia; Páramo Rueda, Juan Sebastián; Ruiz Charris, Paula
       title: Rhythm, Syntax, Punctuation: A Distant Analysis of the European Sonnet
        date: 2022-09-01
       words: 8148
      flesch: 66
     summary: The program was created using Boris Tomashevsky’s method based on analyzing the punctuation at the end of poetic lines (the strength of the syntactic pause is evaluated depending on the absence or presence of a punctuation sign: i.e., a comma, a dash, a semicolon, or a full stop / question mark / exclamation mark). We applied Boris Tomashevsky’s method, which is based on analyzing the punctuation at the end of poetic lines, to a corpus of European sonnets (more than 1200 texts).
    keywords: analysis; anastasia; belousova; charris; european; juan; lines; number; paula; pause; petrarch; punctuation; páramo; ronsard; rueda; ruiz; sebastián; sentences; shakespeare; shapir; sonnet; stanza; strength; structure; syntactic; syntax; ties
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        item: #108 of 116
          id: smp-19206
      author: Mikkel, Annika
       title: Latin Accentual Clausula as Exemplified in 14th-Century Prose Texts by Dante and Boccaccio
        date: 2022-09-01
       words: 6090
      flesch: 69
     summary: In the Middle Ages, there were four basic rhythmical units: cursus planus, cursus velox, cursus tardus and cursus trispondaicus. In each database, the endings corresponding to the cursus are treated as separate categories (cursus planus, cursus trispondaicus, cursus tardus, cursus velox); endings that are different from cursus are all grouped together under the category “other endings”.
    keywords: cursus; figure; planus; planus trispondaicus; tardus; trispondaicus; trispondaicus velox; velox; velox tardus
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        item: #109 of 116
          id: smp-19207
      author: Ustinov, Andrei ; Babak, Galina 
       title: Ad fontes: Borys Jakubs’kyj’s Nauka virshuvannia and Formation of the Ukrainian Science of Verse
        date: 2022-09-01
       words: 8759
      flesch: 57
     summary: In developing his science of versification Jakubs’kyj relied on the instrumentarium of the proponents of the Formalist method in literary studies who belonged to the Petrograd Society for the Study of the Poetic Language, known as OPOJAZ, and primarily on the concepts developed by Boris Tomashevskij who pretty much singlehandedly established the OPOJAZ approach to verse theory. Jakubs’kyj’s book is structured around five main parts, which are: “Theory of verse rhythm”, “Classical (metric) versification”, “New (tonic) versifica- tion”, “Poetic euphony”, and “Strophics”.
    keywords: author; book; chervonyj; jakubs’kyj; kyiv; line; literature; meter; nauka; nauka virshuvannia; poetry; rhythm; russian; science; shliakh; theory; tomashevskij; ukrainian; verse; versification; virshuvannia
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        item: #110 of 116
          id: smp-19208
      author: Lotman, Maria-Kristiina; Pilshchikov, Igor 
       title: Versification and Poetics through the Lens of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics (“Juri Lotman 100”: A Report from Poetry and Poetics Panels)
        date: 2022-09-01
       words: 2835
      flesch: 38
     summary: Several papers focused on signs in poetic texts and poetic text as a sign system. The most vivid forms of such poetry destroy the boundaries of tra- ditional verbal discourse and expand the very concept of poetry.
    keywords: lotman; paper; poetics; poetry; structure; system; tartu; text
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        item: #111 of 116
          id: smp-22287
      author: Scherr, Barry P.
       title: Philip Larkin and the Stanza
        date: 2022-12-31
       words: 24221
      flesch: 67
     summary: Line 1 is in fact trochaic, while line 2 begins with a choriamb and would need a monosyllabic word between “lights” and “over” to become a regular iambic pentameter (hence Larkin’s remark that each of those lines is missing a syllable). All four lines of stanza 1 are in dimeter, stanza 2 has dimeter in lines 2 and 3 surrounded by trimeter in 1 and 4, while the third stanza has dimeter only in line 1 and then trimeter in the poem’s final three lines.
    keywords: barry; end; form; iambic; larkin; length; line rhyme; line stanzas; lines; number; pattern; poems; poetry; rhyme; rhyme scheme; scherr; second; sonnets; stanzaic; use; verse; works
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        item: #112 of 116
          id: smp-22288
      author: Dikova, Ekaterina
       title: A Byzantine Poetic Form in a Ninth-Century Bulgarian Poem
        date: 2022-12-31
       words: 10396
      flesch: 69
     summary: [ꙉ.�лѣтъ�нꙑнѣ�/ �словѣньско�племѧ] 13� Къ�крьщенюю•/�обратша�сѧ�вьс�⁘����������������4–5 14� Люд�твоо•/�нарещ�сѧ�хотѧще�⁘����������������2–3, 4–5 15� Млост�твоꙗоꙗ•/�б҃е�просѧть�ꙁѣло�⁘� 4–5 16� Нъ�мънѣ�нꙑнѣ•/�пространо�слово�даждь�⁘ 17� О҃е�с҃не•/��прѣс҃тꙑꙑ�д҃ше�⁘���������������������������8–9 18� Просѧщоуоумоу•/�помощ�ѿ�тебе�⁘����������������3–4 19� Роуцѣ�бо�своо�/�горѣ�въꙁдѣю�прсно�⁘������������4–5, 9–10 20� Слоу�прꙗт•/��моудрость�оу�тебе�⁘�����������3–4 21� Тꙑ�бо�даш•/�достономъ�слоу�⁘ 3–4 22� Упостась�же•/�вьсѧкоуюоую�цѣлш�⁘ 8–9 23� Фараоша мѧ•/�ꙁълобꙑ ꙁбав �⁘ 24� Херовьскоу�м•/�мꙑсль��оумъ�даждь�⁘ 25 [Ѡ]О�ьст[ь]наꙗаꙗ•/�прѣст҃аꙗаꙗ�трооце�⁘ 4–5, 8–9, 10–11 26� Пеаль�моюою�/�на�радость�прѣлож�⁘ 4–5 27� Цѣломоудрьно•/�да�наьноу�пьсат�⁘ 28� юдеса�твоꙗоꙗ•/�прѣдвьнаꙗ ꙁѣло�⁘ 4–5, 9–10 29� Шестькрлатъ•/�слоу�въспрмъ�⁘ 9–10 (11 syll.) 85A Byzantine Poetic Form in a Ninth-Century Bulgarian Poem 30� Шьствоуюоую�нꙑнѣ•/�по�слѣдоу�оутелю�⁘��������2–3 31� мен�юю•/��дѣлоу�послѣдоуꙗ�⁘�����������������4–5, 11–12 32
    keywords: alphabetic; bulgarian; byzantine; century; constantine; dodecasyllable; ekaterina; form; number; poem; poetry; prayer; prosody; syllables; text; verse; καὶ; ⁘ �;  �; � ⁘
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        item: #113 of 116
          id: smp-22289
      author: Prieto Mendoza, Alejandro Augusto
       title: Alliteration and Rhyme in the Traditional Kakataibo Chants of Emilio Estrella
        date: 2022-12-31
       words: 8770
      flesch: 60
     summary: Kakataibo rhyme is also sporadic, its domain is the final syllable of the line and the nucleus of it; only the nasal consonant /n/ can occupy coda in end-line syllables. As I show in §5, /n/ and these sibilant fricatives play a central role in Kakataibo rhyme and alliteration.
    keywords: alliteration; case; chants; coda; emilio; emilio estrella; estrella; example; fricative; kakataibo; line; mendoza; nucleus; prieto; rhyme; syllable
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        item: #114 of 116
          id: smp-22290
      author: Weiskott, Eric
       title: The Meter of the Ophni and Phineas Insertion in Piers Plowman
        date: 2022-12-31
       words: 5907
      flesch: 60
     summary: Crucially for this inconsistently alliterating passage, I follow Cornelius and others in distinguishing metrical stress assignment from the disposition of 119The Meter of the Ophni and Phineas Insertion in Piers Plowman alliteration.2 Ironies of nomenclature notwithstanding, alliteration is not a metrical entity in alliterative verse. Strange as it sounds, the separation of alliteration from metrical stress assignment in metrical theory implies the possibility of blank, that is non-allit- erating, alliterative verse (Lewis 1935: 13).
    keywords: alliterative; dip; duggan; english; langland; meter; phineas; piers; plowman; verse; yakovlev
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        item: #115 of 116
          id: smp-22291
      author: Couturier, Nils; Martynenko, Antonina; Nugues, Lara; Ruiz Fabo, Pablo; Sarv, Mari
       title: Plotting Poetry 5: Popular Voices, 4–6 July 2022, Tartu, Estonia
        date: 2022-12-31
       words: 5707
      flesch: 39
     summary: The keynote paper by Maciej Janicki, “Text similarity and alignment in the study of Finnic oral folk poetry”, introduced the methodology for detecting similar verse lines and song texts implemented in the exploratory research environment Runoregi. Lotman & Lotman compared rhyming models by two Estonian rap artists with the ones found in Estonian literary poetry, finding rich novel rhyming strategies in Estonian rap as a result of contact with Western models.
    keywords: century; corpus; different; dolnik; estonian; meter; paper; poems; poetry; rhythm; russian; song; tartu; text; university; verse
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        item: #116 of 116
          id: smp-22292
      author: Trunin, Mikhail
       title: Frontiers in Comparative Metrics IV, 16–17 September 2022, Tallinn, Estonia
        date: 2022-12-31
       words: 6168
      flesch: 45
     summary: The last presentation of the session, “Freedom Bound” by Johnny Edström (Stockholm University), was devoted to a detailed cognitive analysis of four poems written by Edith Södergran in metrical verse. Most, however, have chosen kinds of metrical verse that, apart from the usual licence of vary- ing clausulae, regulate the number of syllables in ways that are quite alien to the original: some translations are based on unified ten-position lines in which stresses are irregularly distributed; others, on lines divided by internal extra- metricality, with each half featuring two ictuses, a noticeable ternary rhythm and optional headlessness, or on divided lines in which each half has exactly five positions.
    keywords: analysis; conference; lines; meter; metrics; paper; poem; poetry; rhythm; russian; tallinn; tradition; university; verse
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