Ukrainian stress

[Daniel Rancour-Laferriere]

Dear Paul,
Here is what Will Ryan wrote:

> In English, consider the song of the Lord Chancellor in his  
> unfortunate encounter with the Fairy Queen in Gilbert and Sullivan's  
> Iolanthe:
>
> A plague on this vagary,
> I'm in a nice quandary!
> Of hasty tone
> With dames unknown
> I ought to be more chary;
> It seems that she's a fairy
> From Andersen's library,
> And I took her for
> The proprietor
> Of a Ladies' Seminary!
>
> Six out of  ten words at the end of the lines can only be sung with  
> non-standard stress. It is true that Gilbert was looking for comic  
> effect, also true that he enjoyed mocking serious opera.


If "I never promised you a rose garDEN" is not convincing, surely  
these lines are.

Regarding stress-shift in a NON-musical context I wrote:

>
>> ... And it is curious that the three published poets (Sasha Sokolov,
>> Aleksei Tsvetkov, Eduard Limonov) shifted word stress significantly
>> more often than did the rest of the sample (p less than .025 on  
>> Mann-Whitney U test).
>> All of which illustrates Roman Jakobson's 1923 thesis that poetic
>> form is "organized violence" inflicted upon language.
>> Cheers to the list.
>> <http://Rancour-Laferriere.com>
>
> I'm sure I will find your site interesting, but I have a deadline  
> today (my nephew's birthday party 160 miles away), so it will have  
> to wait.
>

That's OK.  There is no hurry.  Some of us have spent years working on  
Russian metrics, and there is much more complexity to it than can be  
handled in list serve banter.  In fact, forget my site and go directly  
to THE NEW PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POETRY AND POETICS (1993), where  
there are substantial entries and bibliographies on "Foot" (416-420),  
"Meter" (768-783), "Music and Poetry" (803-806), "Prosody" (982-994),  
"Slavic Prosody" (1155-1158), and some others which may be relevant.   
And no doubt since 1993 other relevant studies have been made.

Cheers to the list,
Daniel R-L.

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