METER OF SEGMENTS LONGER THAN A LINE IN A BASHKIR SYLLABIC VERSE

Occupation: Associate Professor
Affiliation: the National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
Address: 20 Myasnitskaya Str., Moscow, 101000, Russia

Journal name

Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka

Edition

Volume 78 Issue 2

Pages

41-50

Abstract

The paper considers a specific element of syllabic versification on the Bashkir text data. We examine the ordered alternations of lines of different lengths. Such verse forms exist in Turkic verse along with the usual isosyllabic poems. The status of such forms is ambiguous; they can be viewed both as a stanza and as a special meter. A similarly difficult case for traditional verse studies is elegiac distich.

Based on the corpus of the texts of 103 Bashkir poets, we analyzed the correlation of isosyllabic and heterosyllabic verse forms. The most common among the latter are “Uzun-kyuy&8j1; and “Kyska-kyuy&8j1;, forms of folk origin, presented in the regular alternation of 10 and 9 syllables, as well as 8 and 7 syllables in line.

“Kyska-kyuy&8j1; has analogies in other Turkic traditions, in Tuva, Khakass, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz verse. “Uzun-kyuy&8j1; seems to be specific to the Volga-Kypchak region.

The longer first line is a typological parallel to Russian verse, in which the first line in a stanza is usually longer than the last.

The results of the calculations showed that the rhythm of the 8-syllables in the isosyllabic texts and in the Kyska-kyuy is seriously different. In the isosyllabic texts, a caesura is obligatory after the 4th syllable, but in Kyska-kyuy it usually does not exist.

A statistical test showed that there is no relationship between the preference of the isosyllabic form and the time of birth of the poet.

The Bashkir poets, in spite of the syllabic nature of their poetry, do not adopt the western poetic patterns like the Alexandrian verse.

It should be clarified that the lines in 9 and 10 syllables are often found together in one poem, but rarely appear where there are lines in 7 syllables. This suggests that Uzun and Kyska are independent forms that rarely intersect.

Keywords

Bashkir verse, syllabic verse, quantitative methods, isosyllabic, caesura.

Received

21.05.2019

Publication date

28.05.2019

Number of characters

28175

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GOST	Orekhov B. METER OF SEGMENTS LONGER THAN A LINE IN A BASHKIR SYLLABIC VERSE // Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka – 2019. – V. 78. – Issue 2 C. 41-50 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://izv-oifn.ru/S241377150004956-4-1 (circulation date: 26.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S241377150004956-4
MLA	Orekhov, Boris V "METER OF SEGMENTS LONGER THAN A LINE IN A BASHKIR SYLLABIC VERSE." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 78.2 (2019):41-50. DOI: 10.31857/S241377150004956-4
APA	Orekhov B. (2019). METER OF SEGMENTS LONGER THAN A LINE IN A BASHKIR SYLLABIC VERSE. Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 78(2), pp.41-50 DOI: 10.31857/S241377150004956-4

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