Rhyme in 16th-Century Hungarian Historical Songs: A Pilot Study

0553216 - ÚČL 2022 RIV CZ eng C - Konferenční příspěvek (zahraniční konf.)
Maróthy, S. - Seláf, L. - Plecháč, Petr
Rhyme in 16th-Century Hungarian Historical Songs: A Pilot Study.
Tackling the Toolkit. Plotting Poetry through Computational Literary Studies. Prague: ICL CAS, 2021 - (Plecháč, P.; Kolár, R.; Bories, A.; Říha, J.), s. 43-58. ISBN 978-80-7658-032-9.
[Plotting Poetry 4. Tackling the Toolkit. Praha (CZ), 17.09.2020-19.09.2020]
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378068
Klíčová slova: versification * stylometry * rhyme * Hungarian poetry
Obor OECD: Specific literatures
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This article presents a computer-based stichometric analysis of 26 Hungarian historical songs from the 16th century. We explore the validity of comments made by Albert Szenci Molnár in 1607 about the poor quality and simplicity of stanza structures in the poetry of previous generations. The study shows how rhyming changed in this poetic genre between 1539 and 1598. In this respect, it is the first work to explore these changes through a quantitative analysis. We find that during the examined period, there was a marked decline in the frequency of rhymes based on the repetition of the same word. At the same time, the tendency to maintain a rhyme across multiple stanzas did not change significantly.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0328211