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Meter in poetry

Meter in poetry (MIP) presents a unified account of the meters used in the world's poetic traditions. According to Fabb and Halle (F&H), all poetry is made up of lines and the defining feature of metrical poetry is that it involves restrictions on line length (p. 273). The aim of the book is to provide a general framework within which to characterize the various ways in which lines are measured and patterned in the world's poetic traditions. The general outlook of MIP is that of generative linguistics. Just as a linguistic theory is a theory of grammatical well-formedness, a theory of meter is a theory of metrical well-formedness. As its title indicates, the book deals only with meter, not with versification in general; topics such as rhyme, alliteration, and stanza structure are touched upon only to the extent that they are relevant to the discussion of meter. Works with comparable theoretical goals have appeared in the past, notably Chapter 3 of Halle and Keyser (1971), Kiparsky (1977), Hayes (1983, 1989), Prince (1989), Hanson and Kiparsky (1996), Golston (1998), and Golston and Riad (2000). These were all of article size and none of them dealt with more than a few poetic traditions. MIP's empirical coverage is incomparably more vast. Here are the main headings of the table of contents: "A theory of poetic meter" (pp. 1-43); "English strict meters" (pp. 44-66); "English loose meters" (pp. 67-93); "Southern Romance" (pp. 94-132); "French" (pp. 133-152); "Greek" (pp. 153-185); "Classical Arabic" (pp. 186-213); "Sanskrit" (pp. 214-237); "Latvian" (pp. 238-250); "Meters of the world" (pp. 251-267); "The metrical poetry of the Old Testament" (pp. 268-284).