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Title:Phonetics and the stylistic appreciation of a poetic text: focus on the rhythm of Kiswahili verse
Author:Mwihaki, Alice Nyambura
Year:1998
Periodical:Kiswahili
Volume:61
Pages:74-79
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:East Africa
world
Subjects:language
phonology
Rhythm
Abstract:There is a consensus that rhythm is a fundamental aesthetic property of poetry. The available stylistic analyses of Swahili poetry generally fail to address the question of rhythm. Where attempts are made the description is both inaccurate and inadequate. This paper reinterprets and redefines the notion of stylistic analysis in general, and poetic rhythm in particular, insofar as these refer to Kiswahili verse. A rejoinder to Alice Nyambura Mwihaki's article by F.E.M.K. Senkoro is published in the same volume (p. 80-82). Bibliogr.
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