Although haikai no renga was central to the poetic practice of haikai poets throughout the Edo period, its status within the canon of Japanese literature has been problematic since Masaoka Shiki declared that it was not bungaku. 3 Although Shiki admitted that haikai no renga texts had “literary” elements, linked verse values change over unity so his final judgment was that it could not be consi...

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Twenty 17 th century metrical psalms (ten in Welsh and ten in Scottish Gaelic) were used to investigate the suitability of the Zipf-Alekseev function for modelling verse lengths in these Celtic languages. Good fits were obtained for both languages; however, the parameter c was always negligible, hence future work might consider using the simple power function, if this proves to be the case more...

Artikel ini mengkaji teknik penerjemahan yang dikembangkan oleh Bassnet terhadap puisi “The Little Stone” ke dalam bahasa Jawa “Watu Klungsu”. Penerjemahan menggunakan interpretasi, harfiah, rima, dan larik secara bebas. Intervensi budaya norma tampak kental karya terjemahan karena penerjemah istilah Jawa. Hal itu bertujuan untuk menyesuaikan dengan sasaran mendekatkan kepada pembaca target. Ha...

The science of versification and analysis of verse in Sanskrit is governed by rules of metre or chandas. Such metre-wise classification of verses has numerous uses for scholars and researchers alike, such as in the study of poets and their style of Sanskrit poetical works. This paper presents a comprehensive computational scheme and set of algorithms to identify the metre of verses given as San...