This book attempts to solve the yet unsolved mystery: what are the intuitive rules of versification followed by poets and readers in writing and reading poetry? It performs a small Copernican Revolution, shifting the constraints from verse structure to the reader's "Rhythmic Competence". It confers a psychological meaning upon the phrase "rhythmical performance", that allows us to make predictions concerning the rhythmical performance of a metrically complex line. The theoretical discussions are supported by empirical research, in which readings by leading British actors and colleagues from the academy are submitted to an instrumental investigation.
Poetic Rhythm: Structure and Performance: An Empirical Study in Cognitive Poetics
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