Contents -- Acknowledgements 9 -- 1 Theory -- Prolegomena to a Theory of Meter 13 -- The Metrical Relations XO and OX in English and German Verse 29 -- Generative Metrics: The State of the Art 45 -- "Russian School" and Verse Attribution: Henry VIII 63 -- Meter, Rhythm, and Performance in the Reconstructive Simulation of Versification 79 -- 2 Typology -- Metrical Typology: A New Proposal Based on Some Pertinent Models (Lotz, Wagenknecht, Buchštab) 101 -- 3 Automated Metrical Analysis -- The Metricalizer - Automated Metrical Markup of German Poetry 119 -- Automated Analysis of Poetic Texts and the Problem of Verse Meter 133 -- 4 English Versification -- Shakespeare's Secret Influence: Metrical Gaps and the Jacobean Dramatists 143 -- Correlation of Rhythmic and Syntactic Characteristics in the Sonnets by John Keats 151 -- Gerard Manley Hopkins' Theory of "Sprung Rhythm" and the Scansion of "The Windhover" 161 -- Meter and Meaning in British Balladry 181 -- Constraint Ranking in English Broadside Ballads 197 -- 5 Comparative Metrics -- Meter and Stanza in Rock Music: A Historical Perspective 207 -- Modular Constraints in Translation Analysis: The Translation of J. W. Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea by the Russian Poet Afanasij Fet (1820-92) 229 -- Zur Rhythmik der frühen niederländischen und deutschen Jamben 251 -- Sapphic Hendecasyllable in Estonian Poetry 265 -- 6 Analyses of Verse Forms and Verse Systems -- Norwegian Stev: The Dipod and Pure Accentual Poetry 279 -- Against an Isochronous Interpretation of the Nibelungen Meter 291 -- Verse Structure and its Cognitive Model (Hexameter and Septenary) 307 -- Metrical Universals in Oral Poetry 329 -- Konlabot and Konla Akson - The Quintessence of Poetic Constraint in Siamese Poetry 339 -- 7 Rhythmical Prose -- Rhetorical Rhythm and Oratorical Style: Barak Obama's Art of Language 349.

Notes on Contributors 361.