Metre

Abstract: PART ONE: Approaches 1 Traditional Approaches 2 Linguistic Approaches PART TWO: Rhythm 3 The Rhythms of English Speech 4 The Four-Beat Rhythm 5 The Five-Beat Rhythm PART THREE: Metre 6 What is a Metrical Rule? 7 The Rules of English Metre 8 Metrical Rules and the Structures of Language PART FOUR: Practice 9 The Functions of Poetic Rhythm 10 Rhythm at Work: Some examples Appendix: Rules and Scansion Bibliography Sources of examples Index

Abstract: Preface Acknowledgments On using this book 1. The rhythms of poetry: a first approach 2. The rhythms of spoken English 3. Dancing language 4. Stress verse and strong-stress verse: counting the beats 5. Syllable-stress verse: versatility and variation 6. Major types of syllable-stress verse 7. Free verse: metrical and rhythmic analysis 8. Phrasal movement Appendix 1. Scansion Appendix 2. Glossary Appendix 3. Sources of examples Appendix 4. Suggested responses to the exercises.

Abstract: Foreword 1. Introduction scope and aims stylistics and Hebrew poetry 2. Poetic Texts in other Semitic Languages introduction Ugaritic poetry Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) poetic material 3. Analyzing Hebrew Poetry: Notes on Method terminology method function in poetry archaisms dating textual criticism prose or poetry? close: notes on theory 4. The Hebrew Poet in Action oral poetry oral poetry: theory techniques and characteristics of oral poetry ancient Hebrew oral poetry techniques and characteristics of oral poetry in Hebrew epic poetry in Hebrew? 5. Metre what is metre? metre in ancient Semitic languages the stress (accentual) theory of Hebrew metre other theories: survey and critique anacrusis functions of metre 6. Parallelism introductory gender-matched parallelism parallel word-pairs number parallelism staircase parallelism other types of parallelism 7. Stanza and Strophe the stanza strophic patterns: introduction the monocolon the abc/b'c' couplet the tricolon strophic patterns: the quatrain strophic patterns: the pentacolon higher strophic units acrostics and related patterns 8. Verse-Patterns introduction chiasmus and chiastic patterns the terrace pattern (anadiplosis and sorites) the pivot pattern 9. Sound in Hebrew Poetry general assonance alliteration rhyme Closing Comments Indices Supplementary Bibliography Further Additions and Corrections

Abstract: Virgil - his life and times "Bucolics" "Georgics" "Aeneid" style, language and metre Virgil's impact at Rome - the non-literary evidence Virgil - the literary impact (Ovid's "Metamorphoses", Lucanus, Valerius Flaccus, Statius' "Thebaid", Statius' "Achilleid", Silius Italicus) the transmission of Virgil's works in antiquity and the Middle Ages.