Rytm wiersza z różnych punktów słyszenia
Verse Rhythm from Different Listening Points

Summary/Abstract: Verse systems persist through ages maintaining the same repertoire of their features. Yet, does this mean that the literary audience perceive them always in a similar way? After a brief outline of examples from the history of Polish versification, the essay focuses on a contemporary European litanic verse. There are presented three poets’ ways of approaching the convention, in which the litanic rhythm is: i) treated as a meditation tool in accordance with tradition; ii) misunderstood in terms of its principles; and iii) reclaimed in a hermeneutic procedure of renewed understanding.

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