Call and Response Rhythms in Dialogue Poetry & Nichols/May
Submitted by Dylan Benedikt Fugel on Wed, 05/04/2016 - 00:00
What is immediately noticeable in both the alba form (which we could broadly consider a dialogue between man and nature, a protective warding spoken from the noble knight to the sun that threatens to rise), and in dialogue poetry such as Marcabru's pastourelas is that there is a clear rhythm of call and response, a linguistic interplay that lets each side of the dialogue express there opinions in an almost melodic rhythm.