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Any metrical utterance has constituents founded in language and in metrics. The totality cannot consist metrically of less than a verse and two segments, and linguistically of less than a sentence. The principles governing metrical structure are that of partition and symmetry. The totality is thus d...
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| Published in: | South African Journal of African Languages Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 17 - 29 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
01.01.2011
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| ISSN: | 0257-2117, 2305-1159 |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | Any metrical utterance has constituents founded in language and in metrics. The totality cannot consist metrically of less than a verse and two segments, and linguistically of less than a sentence. The principles governing metrical structure are that of partition and symmetry. The totality is thus divided into segments by (a) a word boundary marked by rhyme (in Afrikaans and English) or the repetition of a word (in Sepedi), or (b) a phrase boundary. Symmetry is realized by rhyme, quantitative/stress rhythm, an arrangement of units of meaning (only where the segments are divided by a phrase boundary), the repetition of (i) the same number of syllables and (ii) the same number of words. The Sepedi verse is a phrase verse, and that means that: |
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| ISSN: | 0257-2117 2305-1159 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02572117.2011.10587353 |