Re: quantitative meter, accent and verse form

 >From: Dirk Elzinga <Dirk_Elzinga@...>
 >
 >                                               I'm not sure that the
 >Miapimoquitch have formal verse forms; I suspect that much of their
 >singing and oral poetry will be metrical in a way that is unfamiliar
 >to Western poetic practice. Poetic strategies will likely include
 >sound substitutions, vacuous reduplication (that is, reduplication
 >without morphological content), and vocables, all of which are amply
 >attested in Native American traditions.

        Doesn't Finnish folk music do something like this, with
internal reduplication of syllables and even nonsense infixes?

        While poetic forms do differ from culture to culture and
language to language, there seem to be certain common elements.
Chinese is about as different as you can get from Arabic, but both use
end rhyme in their poetic traditions.

--
wm