Abstract
In this essay I would like to experiment with changing the basic unit of rhythmic analysis. In place of the ‘foot’, I will work out from the ‘cell’. I will conduct what might be called a cellular scansion of Edward Brathwaite's Rights of Passage (1968). This has not been motivated by a desire to develop a generalizable scansion, but an approach which suggested itself in the course of tuning into the particular strategies of rhythmic organization employed in this collection. In extrapolating from this particular investigation, it strikes me that it is an approach that might present one type of answer to Gordon Rohlehr’s yet unfulfilled challenge that ‘the problems of prosody haven't begun to be solved in the West Indies’.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 188-210 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Thinking Verse |
Volume | 3 |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |