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A Prosody of Free Verse - Explorations in Rhythm (Paperback)
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A Prosody of Free Verse - Explorations in Rhythm (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
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There is to date no comprehensive account of the rhythms of free
verse. The main purpose of A Prosody of Free Verse: explorations in
rhythm is to fill that gap and begin to provide a systematic
approach to describing and analyzing free verse rhythms. Most
studies have declared the attempt to write such a prosody as
impossible: they prefer to see free verse as an aberrant version of
regular metrical verse. They also believe that behind free verse is
the 'ghost of metre'. Running against that current, A Prosody of
Free Verse bases its new system on additive rhythms that do not fit
conventional time signatures. Inspiration is taken from jazz,
contemporary music and dance, not only in their systems of notation
but in performance. The book argues that twentieth and twenty-first
century rhythms in poetry as based on the line rather than the
metrical foot as the unit of rhythm , and that larger rhythmic
structures fall into verse paragraphs rather than stanzas.
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