Notes on rhythm and metre in the new Bulgarian translations of Euripides
translating Greek lambic trimeter into Bulgarian
Keywords:
rhythm, metre, rhythmic tendency, iambic trimeter, EuripidesAbstract
The paper presents a study of the Bulgarian poetic metres used as equivalents to the Greek iambic trimeter in the new Bulgarian translations of Euripidesʼ tragedies by Dorothea Tabakova and Tamara Petrinska (Euripides, Selected Tragedies and Euripides, Tragedies).
A main focus of the study is the rhythmical tendencies within the poetic metre, utilizing the statistical methods described by Kuncheva in The Metrical Position (pp. 56–129). The results of the study provide a quantitative description of impressions originally gained by the reader intuitively.
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