Versifikacija i jezik u pesmama Majke guske
Versification And Language In Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a metrical and language analysis of Mother Goose nursery rhymes. Its aim is to establish to which extent the development of English versification system is reflected by the rhymes because they, although simple in form, due to their diversity and antiquity contain features that range from those characteristic of the accentual verse of Old English to those characteristic of the accentual-syllabic system of Modern English. The conclusion to be drawn from the language of the rhymes is that, although most of the rhymes are fairly literal in meaning, there are some that make use of various poetic devices, such as simile, metaphor, metonymy, personification, apostrophe, hyperbole, paradox, and oxymoron. Another conclusion regarding the form of the rhymes is that repetition is an important feature, whether it is the repetition of sounds or the repetition of words or phrases.

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