Abstract
The phenomenon of verse-syntax heteromorphy, frequently described in terms of enjambement or run-on lines, is investigated in its structural and functional aspects. Investigating the basis for the tradition of conceiving the phenomenon as a kind of counterpoint, this structural analogy, being found to hold an intuitive attraction, is analysed with a view to its functional implications: what does it imply for the contrapuntal phenomenon in terms of perception/performance to be conceived in terms of different scenarios of force-dynamic emphasis on its structurally constitutive terms? The four basic scenarios of run-on, enjambement, vemficational pseudosyntax and garden path versification are thus analysed. Next, the investigation turns to focus on the theoretical implications of different conceptions of syntactic movement as observed to relate to different conceptions of verse-linear space. An emergent pattern of conceptual mind-body continuity is discussed with a constant view, on the one hand, to the phenomenal specifics of verse-syntax counterpoint and, on the other, the deeper phenomenological significance to be drawn from analysing this structure. The phenomenon is finally found as being meaningful, articulating basic experience, in a broader existential perspective.
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