ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the connection between music and poetry and more specifically uses music practice and theory to provide one of the sources for a free verse prosody. It looks particularly at the development of themes; at the presence and function of rhythm in music and in musical notation; at additive rhythm, one of the key elements in any prosodic theory of free verse; at the representation of time in Indian music, which operates differently from that in the conventional Western music tradition; at cadence in music and poetry; and at the constant rythmique, a recurring rhythmic pattern. The notions of ‘unmeasured time’ and considerations of the neural dimension to the reception of rhythmic patterns are explored towards the end of the chapter.
