| Preface |
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| Abbreviations and Symbols |
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| Transliteration |
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| Some Terms |
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1 | (22) |
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1 | (3) |
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4 | (11) |
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3 The Sound of Classical Arabic Verse: the Known and the Unknown |
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15 | (8) |
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23 | (148) |
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23 | (12) |
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2 The Suitability of Arabic Prosody |
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35 | (2) |
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37 | (6) |
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4 Asymmetry as an Essential Part of Arabic Poetry |
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43 | (6) |
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49 | (11) |
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6 The Irrelevance of the Foot |
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60 | (8) |
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7 The Relevance of the Hemistich and the Caesura |
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68 | (7) |
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8 Some Metrical Statistics |
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75 | (13) |
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9 From Theory to Rare Practice: Three Metres |
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88 | (11) |
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10 Long and Short Measure |
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99 | (1) |
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11 Extremely Short Measure |
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100 | (8) |
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12 The Beat of the Clapper: An Oddity of Classical Arabic Versification |
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108 | (15) |
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13 Further Metrical Experiments |
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123 | (13) |
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14 Degrees of Regularity and Irregularity |
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136 | (5) |
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15 Truly Unmetrical Verse |
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141 | (8) |
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16 Musical Rhythm and Poetical Metre |
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149 | (13) |
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162 | (9) |
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171 | (98) |
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1 To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme |
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171 | (4) |
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175 | (6) |
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181 | (2) |
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183 | (9) |
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192 | (3) |
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195 | (4) |
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7 Anticipating the Rhyme-Word |
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199 | (2) |
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8 Choosing a Rhyme, continued: Feminine Rhyme |
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201 | (2) |
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9 Jarring Sounds, 1: The Ugly Rhyme-Letter /kh/ and its Ugly Sisters |
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203 | (17) |
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10 Jarring Sounds, 2: The Ugliest Arabic Words and Tongue-Twisters |
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220 | (17) |
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11 Rhyming Irregularities |
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237 | (3) |
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240 | (4) |
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244 | (8) |
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252 | (17) |
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269 | (56) |
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269 | (17) |
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2 Sound Effects for their Own Sake |
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286 | (3) |
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3 Alliteration, Lipogram, and Related Forms |
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289 | (8) |
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4 Parallelisms and Repetitions |
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297 | (9) |
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5 Paronomasia and Double Entendre |
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306 | (19) |
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325 | (16) |
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1 Smoothness and Appropriate Roughness |
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325 | (8) |
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2 What is Wrong with al-A'sha's 'Ayniyyah? |
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333 | (8) |
| Appendix A |
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341 | (1) |
| Metre and Rhyme in Classical Arabic Poetry: A Practical Survey |
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341 | (20) |
| Appendix B |
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361 | (1) |
| The Sounds of Arabic |
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361 | (6) |
| Bibliography |
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367 | (22) |
| Index Of Names And Subjects |
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