"Metrical Problems of the Contemporary Bedouin "Qaṣīda

About the appropriate metrical analysis of the contempory Bedouin qasīda, the role of different types of syllable structure in different Bedouin dialects has been overlooked. Najd is recognized as the core area of the Bedouin qasība poetry, and the Najditype dialects display a syllable structure closely akin to the type postulated for the quantitative metrical analysis. But the different syllable structure of the dialects outside the core area has gradually undermined the metrical role of the stress. So, from the synchronic point of view, stress may in some area be defined as the basis of the metrical structure of Bedouin poetry

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