Re: Typology and verse-forms

On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 01:51  PM, Peter Bleackley wrote:
> I was wondering whether there was any correlation between the typology
> of a
> language and the verse-forms it employs. I'll start a list of
> languages.
> Please contribute with corrections and additions, and we'll see if any
> pattern emerges
> Language		Mechanism	Word order	Verse-form
> Modern English		Mixed		SVO		Stress-based feet
> French			Mixed		SVO		Syllable counting
> Latin			Inflecting	SOV		Length-based feet
> Japanese		Agglutinating	SOV		Syllable counting
> Hebrew			Inflecting	VSO		Parallelism
> Historical Germanic	Inflecting	SVO		Alliterative verse
> Please stick to natlangs for the time being. We can discuss
> implications
> for our conlangs later.
> Pete

Arabic ~ Inflecting ~ VSO ~ Length-based feet, rhyme

At least that's the Medieval Arabic poetic style that Medieval Spaniard
Hebrew poetry is based on.

I assume you're only using 'original/native' verse forms?
Otherwise, you could add "length-based feet, rhyme", "syllable
counting" and "stress-based feet" to Hebrew.  Different forms used in
different historical periods.


-Stephen (Steg)
  "...i took the cane from a blind man
   and i tasted the fruit in the garden of eden
   when i walk out of here
   you know i'll stand clear
   but the taste in my mouth still remains, still remains"
      ~ 'eden' by guster

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