ON RHYTHM IN POETRY

Rhythm Analysis and Linear Modeling of Metrical Poetry Respiratory Signal

The paper studies the breathing patterns for four types of Chinese metrical poems, namely, fivecharacter quatrain, five-character octave, sevencharacter quatrain and seven-character octave. A breathing belt was tied to the chest and the respiratory signal was acquired by EMG. Respiratory parameters were defined regarding the dynamical properties of the signal, and were automatically extracted b...

SPARSAR: a system for Poetry Automatic Rhythm and Style AnalyzeR

Any poem can be characterized by its rhythm which is also revealing of the poet's peculiar style. In turn, the poem's rhythm is based mainly on two elements: meter, that is distribution of stressed and unstressed syllables in the verse, presence of rhyming and other poetic devices like alliteration, assonance, consonance, enjambements, etc. which contribute to poetic form at stanza level. Tradi...

On stratification in poetry

Texts are composed of many different strata on different levels. A method is proposed to find the number of strata at the word-form level in Slovak poetry and to study the relationship between the parameters of the fitting function.

meter in poetry and music a research on the basis of prosody and rhythm

rhythm is a criterion for harmonic music, just in a way that prosody is for poetry. like prosody, rhythm has meters that were called periods or rhythmic periods. rhythmic periods consist of noqrehs (silver) or stresses that are equal to words in poem. present article is to study the science of rhythm and prosody, considering the similarities and dissimilarities in their divisions such as their ...

On Poetry and Mind