Rhythmic Forms Research Articles

A Prosody for Whitman?

A prosody has four characteristics: predictability, continuity or wholeness, basis in a prominent feature of the language, and flexibility. Given such a definition, Whitman took significant steps toward developing a prosody that vies with accentual and accentual-syllabic prosodies in its subtlety and in its relative freedom from arbitrariness. Based on the rhythms of grammar, Whitman's poetry is constructed of groups rather than stresses, though stresses are here used to measure the size of groups. He is skillful both in arranging these groups and in controlling their relative size so as to reinforce his meaning. Whether measured in groups/line or stresses/line, his most consistent rhythmic form is the parabola. His use of it occasionally shows a formality and intricacy which are never attributed to him.

Experimental Phonetics and Ancient Greek Verse

ANALYSIS of a macrophonic registration1 of ” Devon to Me !” spoken, by John Galsworthy2 showed that 15 of the 40 lines of the poem had a rhythmic form indicated by ; an example is the line ” Where my fathers stood”. This is the form known in ancient Greek metrics as the hypodochmius (for example, ” Oed. rex”, 1208). Twenty lines had the form ; an example is ” Watching the sea”. This is the choriambus, a very common ancient form. Five lines had the form as in ” Taste of the cream pan !” This is the form termed adoneus. Every line of the poem was spoken with some form of ancient Greek rhythm. The registration of the first stanza of ” Drake's Spirit” by Galsworthy himself showed that the line ” I, Francis Drake” had the rhythm of the third epitrite as in ” Medea”, 628, and that the line ” When the land needs” had the rhythm of the rising ionic as in ” Phoen.”, 1539.

Rhythmische Phänomene der Erdoberfläche

ON the surface of contact of two different media, such as air and water or water and sand, various rhythmic forms are produced when there is relative movement. The forms vary widely in kind and order of magnitude, and include sand dunes, ripple-marks, and river meanders. This book is devoted to a systematic account of the phenomena involved and the morphological features produced, and is useful as a compilation of observations and hypotheses, and as a bibliography of the subject. Unfortunately the physical treatment is weak and no mathematical discussion is presented. Although the book does not add any original contribution to the theoretical aspects of the rhythmic and periodic phenomena of geology, it will nevertheless serve a valuable purpose in providing geologists, geographers, and engineers with a most convenient summary of what is already known in a somewhat neglected field of investigation. The author deserves our gratitude, if only for his enterprise in tidying up a very scattered subject.

The Rhythmic Form of the German Folk-Songs IV

Previous articleNext article FreeThe Rhythmic Form of the German Folk-Songs IVGeorge Pullen JacksonGeorge Pullen Jackson Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Modern Philology Volume 15, Number 2Jun., 1917 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/387116 Views: 27 PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Psalms in Modern Speech and Rhythmical Form. John Edgar McFadyen

<i>The Psalms in Modern Speech and Rhythmical Form</i>. John Edgar McFadyen

The Rhythmic Form of the German Folk-Songs. III

The Rhythmic Form of the German Folk-Songs. III

The Rhythmic Form of the German Folk-Songs. II

The Rhythmic Form of the German Folk-Songs. II

The Rhythmic Form of the German Folk-Songs. I

Next article FreeThe Rhythmic Form of the German Folk-Songs. IGeorge Pullen JacksonGeorge Pullen Jackson Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Modern Philology Volume 13, Number 10Feb., 1916 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/387024 Views: 137Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

On the Rhythmical Form of an Anglican Chant

On the Rhythmical Form of an Anglican Chant