The
Journal of Byelorussian Studies
Vol. III,
No. 2
STANZA, RHYME AND METRE IN 19TH-CENTURY
BYELORUSSIAN
VERSE
by A.B. McMillin
The 19th
century is an important period in the history
of Byelorussian versification for it saw a number of major evolutionary
changes: from the syllabic verse which, partly under Czech and Polish
influence,
had flourished in the late mediaeval period, to syllabo-tonic patterns
and finally, in Bahushevich and his contemporaries, the tonic verse
which
was to find its ultimate justification as the foundation for
Bahdanovich's
viersh bielaruskaha skladu...
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