Metrical Strength in Persian Poetic Metres

In determining the metrical structure of quantitative poetic metres, heavy (i.e. long) syllables are usually associated with metrically strong positions. this study, examining case Persian I argue that metres must be treated as temporal patterns in music, where research on rhythm perception has shown strength an event is not directly determined by inter-onset interval following it but sensitive to overall arrangement attack points. To identify positions, introduce a different method based performance practices participants tradition. The hierarchy then used offer constituency trees for forms and classify them. structures identified from those suggested previous accounts they allow incomplete constituents at left edges metres. Building upon general framework, set constraints chiefly well-known universal rhythmic tendencies introduced metre inventory accounted emerging interaction these constraints.