Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Isochronous metrics
7. Textsetting as constraint conflict 43
8. Comparing musical textsetting in French and in English songs 63
9. Bavarian Zwiefache 79
10. Natural Versification in French and German counting-out rhymes 101
11. Minimal chronometric forms 123
12. Symmetry and children’s poetry in sign languages 143
13. Part II. Prosodic metrics
14. Pairs and triplets 167
15. Generative linguistics and Arabic metrics 193
16. On the meter of Middle English alliterative verse 209
17. The Russian Auden and the Russianness of Auden 229
18. Towards a universal definition of the caesura 247
19. Metrical alignment 267
20. Rephrasing line-end restrictions 287
21. Part III. Para-metrical phenomena
22. Pif paf poof 307
23. The phonology of elision and metrical figures in Italian versification 325
24. Part IV. Macrostructural metrics
25. Convention and parody in the rhyming of Tristan Corbière 337
26. The metrics of Sephardic song 355
27. A rule of metrical uniformity in old Hungarian poetry 371
28. Metrical structure of the European sonnet 385
29. Persons index 403
30. Languages index 411
31. Subjects index 415