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Quatrain form in English folk verse

Author(s) -

Bruce Hayes,

Margaret R. MacEachern

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

language

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.115

H-Index - 76

eISSN - 1535-0665

pISSN - 0097-8507

DOI - 10.1353/lan.1998.0152

Subject(s) - couplet , salient , truncation (statistics) , function (biology) , constraint (computer aided design) , line (geometry) , linguistics , natural (archaeology) , literature , history , computer science , mathematics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , poetry , art , geometry , archaeology , machine learning , evolutionary biology , biology

Quatrains in English folk verse are governed by laws that regulate the patterns of truncation (non-filling of metrical positions) at the ends of lines. Each of the possible truncation patterns (we claim 26) is adhered to consistently through multiple stanzas and defines a verse type. The descriptive goal of this article is to account for why these and only these truncation patterns exist.

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