Thanks to all for the intersting comments, and especially to John
Cayley for that fascinating bit about classical Chinese. I take your
point about visual rythms John, and agree that we shouldn't divide
poetry too rigidly from the other arts. But I still see poetry as
primarily a verbal thing, and when I refer to rhythm I mean sound,
a beat.
stephen pain writes:
> Is it quantitative, can we say looking at a wave form analysis of a
> and b and decide that one is rhythmic and the other not
Douglas Oliver did some work on this sort of thing. Found this in
the archives:
'good translations ... tend to capture not only the music
but also what I call the voicing patterns -- that is the rhythmic patterns
created by those moments in a poetic line when the larynx sounds and those
moments when it does not (either because the consonants are "voiceless --
don't use the larynx, such as "t", "k", etc. or because there's some tiny
pause)'.(Douglas Oliver)
Alan
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