“Meter is an abstract structure by which one phonological feature (or sound-feature) of a language—usually stress, pitch, or length—is reduced from several levels to two, to a binary pattern of marked and unmarked syllables in regular alternation.”[1] Ferber’s definition highlights what is abstract, over-simplifying, and schematic about meter as a cognitive tool for the analysis … Continue reading Ars Metrica. Formen der Vermittlung in der antiken Vers- und Prosodielehre