Ars Metrica 2012/05 The Galician-Portuguese Lyrical Poetry in its ...

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El tetrástico y las series monorrimas
en la poesía occitano-catalana medieval
Joan Mahiques Climent
(Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art)
Abstract
The analysis of a large corpus of medieval Catalan poetry allows us to bind the use of tetrastich and
some monorhyme series to the Occitan-Catalan post-troubadour poetry of thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries. Catalan poetry of fifteenth and sixteenth centuries written in monorhythmic lines is
smaller in proportion to that of previous centuries. Most of the works studied here are religious and
anonymous. The manuscripts of these compositions are characterized by metrical irregularity,
although some poems based in pre-existing melodies, such as Veni, creator Spiritus, which stands
out because of its clear tendency to strophic regularity. In fact, some poems have musical notation
or rubrics that indicate the tone in which they might be sung. Finally, it is emphasized the use of
octosyllabic and decasyllabic verse with caesura; and anaphora and internal rhyme as some of the
most common rhetorical devices, specially in long-line stanzas.
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La métrica cancioneril en la época de los Reyes Católicos:
la poesía de Pedro de Cartagena
Ana M. Rodado Ruiz
(Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)
Abstract
This article analyzes the poetry of Pedro de Cartagena as a representative work about the uses and
metric artifices of the court poetry in the age of the Catholic Monarchs. After a long way from the
most ancient song-books as Baena’s compilation (PN1) or the Cancionero de Palacio (SA7), in
which we can still find traces of Occitan and Galician-Portuguese traditions, the turn-of-the-century
song-books represent a moment of fullness in the evolution of the metric genres. Cartagena’s work
offers a wide and varied sample of both the metric preferences and the high degree of
experimentation reached by the poetry during this fruitful literary period.
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The Metrical Structure of Kashmiri Vanɨvun
Sadaf MUNSHI
(University of North Texas)
Abstract
Poetics, as Roman Jakobson states in his remarks about poetry in relation to linguistics, primarily
deals with the question, “What makes a verbal message a work of art?” In oral traditions of poetry,
various linguistic entities are employed by poets in the formation of metrical constraints without
making them obvious as conscious sets of rules (See Kiparsky 1972 [1988]: 96). Many different
clues are employed by poets in traditional societies to help understand the nature of these linguistic
entities. The main objectives of this paper are: (1) to describe the metrical structure of Vanɨvun – a
popular genre of Kashmiri folklore, and (2) to analyze the metrical constraints/peculiarities
characterizing the elegant structure of this poetic genre. As a poetic genre, Vanɨvun poses a
challenge to most available models of poetic composition where PROMINENCE is treated in terms of
metrical asymmetry between Strong and Weak positions. The metrical structure of Vanɨvun presents