The smallest recurrent segment of the line, consisting of one stressed syllable and one or two unstressed ones is called foot. Where / represents an unstressed syllable, ─ a stressed one, │means a pause.Īlmost any piece of prose, though in essence arhythmical, can be made rhythmical by isolating words or sequences of words and making pauses between each.Ī. «…there passed the thought confused and difficulty grasped that he had only heard her use it,…» (S. As the emotion becomes tenser, the rhythmical beat shows itself more evidently: The most obvious rhythmical patterns in prose are based on the use of certain SDs: enumeration, repetition, parallel constructions and chiasmus. Rhythm has meaning – it intensifies and specifies emotions. As we know, verse has its origin in song, so the musical element has assumed a new form of existence – rhythm. On the other hand, if there is no regularity, no stable recurrence of stressed and unstressed segments, the text is an example of prose.īlok’s opinion of rhythm: «The poet is not one who writes verses, but the barer of rhythm». If rises and falls occur periodically at equal intervals, the text is classified as poetry. It is flexible and sometimes an effort is required to perceive it. In language it necessarily demands oppositions that alternate: long, short stressed, unstressed high, low, and other contrasting segments of speech. Rhythm reveals itself most conspicuously in music, dance and verse. Rhythm is primarily a periodicity, which requires specification as to its type. Rhythm is a flow, procedure, characterized by basically regular recurrence of elements or features, as beat, or accent, in alternation with opposite or different elements or features. The pattern of interchange of strong and week segments is called rhythm (Y.M.Skrebnev). It is a mighty weapon in stirring up emotions whatever its nature or origin, whether it is musical, mechanical or symmetrical as in architecture. Rhythm exists in all spheres of human activity and assumes multifarious forms. The flow of speech presents an alteration of stressed and unstressed elements. Form is seen in rhythm, metre, number of feet, number of lines, and rhyme. Ideally, the two should reflect and reinforce each other in expressing the message of the poem. Poetry can be analyzed as to its form and its content. Prosody may reflect the emotional state of a speaker whether an utterance is a statement, a question, or a command whether the speaker is being ironic or sarcastic emphasis, contrast and focus and other elements of language which may not be encoded by grammar.
Prosody (from Greek) is the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech. Prosody is a theory of poetry – the systematic study of versification, metrical structure, the rhythmic and intonational aspect of language.
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