Cast your mind back to August, if you can. As that somewhat sun-less summer drew to an end and we pushed fed-up and forlorn deckchairs back into the shed, in Cardiff a newly acclaimed poet, Carwyn ...

Doctoral student Erik Henriksson is studying the shifts in the metre of ancient Greek poetry while developing a digital tool to collect and analyse his material. “I was wondering how to combine my two ...

THE study of poetic metres is called prosody. Prosody is known as arooz or ilm-i-arooz, not only in Urdu but in Arabic and Persian as well. Other prosodic terms such as behr (metre), rukn (feet of a ...

Few things are more daunting to students of language than meter and scansion. The very mention of the words can glaze the eye or quicken the pulse with panic. The impulse of teachers is often to ...

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