Metrical Phonology Theory
Prosody
Metrical Parameters
Classical
English Poetry
and Classical Arabic Poetry.
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One of the prominent goals of Metrical Phonology Theory is providing stress
of poetry on the syllable-, the foot-, and the phonological word- levels. Analysing
poetry is one of the most prominent and controversial issues for the involved
number and types of syllables, feet, and meters are stable in poetry compared to
other literary texts. The prosodic seeds of the theory have been planted by Firth
(1948) in English, while in Arabic يديهارفلا in the second half of the eighth century
(A.D.) has done so. Investigating the metrical structure of poetry has been
conducted in various languages, whereas scrutinising the metrical structure of
English and Arabic poetry has received little attention. This study aims at capturing
the
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