The rise of the quatrain in Germanic: musicality and word based rhythm in eddic meters

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Music and meter
5. A modular metrics for folk verse 7
6. 2. Metricality
7. What is “metricality”? English iambic pentameter 53
8. 3. English meter
9. Generated metrical form and implied metrical form 77
10. Anapests and anti-resolution 93
11. Shakespeare’s lyric and dramatic metrical styles 111
12. Longfellow’s long line 135
13. 4. Old Norse
14. The rise of the quatrain in Germanic: musicality and word based rhythm in eddic meters 151
15. 5. Mora counting meters
16. The function of pauses in metrical studies: acoustic evidence from Japanese verse 173
17. Iambic meter in Somali 193
18. 6. Modelling statistical preferences
19. Constraints, complexity, and the grammar of poetry 211
20. Modelling the linguistics–poetics interface 233
21. 7. Russian meter
22. Generative metrics and the comparative approach: Russian iambic tetrameter in a comparative perspective 253
23. Structural dynamics in the Onegin stanza 267
24. 8. Classical and Romance metrics
25. The ancient iambic trimeter: a disbalanced harmony 287
26. Backmatter 309