Towards a typology of poetic forms : from language to metrics and beyond Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Proposals for metrical typology Jean Louis Aroui Part I: Isochronous metrics: Textsetting as constraint conflict Bruce Hayes Comparing musical textsetting in French and in English songs François Dell & John Halle Bavarian Zwiefache: Investigating the interface between rhythm metrics and song Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna & Robert Vetterle Natural Versification in French and German counting out rhymes Andreas Dufter & Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna Minimal chronometric forms: On the durational metrics of 2 2 stroke groups Benoît de Cornulier Symmetry and childrens poetry in sign languages Marion Blondel & Christopher Miller Part II: Prosodic metrics: Pairs and triplets: A theory of metrical verse Nigel Fabb & Morris Halle Generative linguistics and Arabic metrics Bruno Paoli On the meter of Middle English alliterative verse Donka Minkova The Russian Auden and the Russianness of Auden: Meaning and form in a translation by Brodsky Nila Friedberg Towards a universal definition of the caesura Marc Dominicy & Mihai Nasta Metrical alignment Kristin Hanson Rephrasing line end restrictions Carlos Piera Part III: Para metrical phenomena: Pif paf poof: Ablaut reduplication in childrens counting out rhymes Andy Arleo The phonology of elision and metrical figures in Italian verse Oreste Floquet Part IV: Macrostructural metrics: Convention and parody in the rhyming of Corbière Dominique Billy The metrics of Sephardic song José Domínguez Caparrós A rule of metrical uniformity in old Hungarian poetry Iván horváth metrical structure of the european sonnet Jean Louis Aroui