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Poetics

an approach treating meter as an abstract pattern plus correspondence rules that decide which lines count as metrical, much as a grammar decides sentences.

In poetics, generative metrics refers to an approach treating meter as an abstract pattern plus correspondence rules that decide which lines count as metrical, much as a grammar decides sentences. This meaning comes from Halle (1966) in College English.[1]

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References

Halle, M., & Keyser, S. J. (1966). Chaucer and the Study of Prosody. College English, 28(3), 187-219. https://doi.org/10.58680/ce196623108

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