Prosody and Rhyme

Course Main Objective

To develop the rhythm sense through learning the poetic meters and the changes that have occurred in the system of rhythm and rhyme, types of its reconstructing; to make students recognize such rules governing the Arabic sounds through knowing rhyme particles and patterns.   

Course Learning Outcomes

• 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
•    1.1 Explain the poetic meters, rhyme particles, patterns, types and drawbacks. 
•    1.2  Mention what has been recently introduced in the poetic prosody and such developments that have occurred in the system of rhymes. 
• 2. Skills 
  
•    2.1 Differentiate between the rhyming and broken verse and such necessities that happened to it. 
•    2.2  Strike a balance between what has been introduced in the Arabic poetic meters and the foot poetry and the prose poem.
•   2.3 Use communication and information technology and learning resources effectively orally and in writing upon performing course work and assignments.
• 3. Values 
•   3.1 Assume individual, collective and leading responsibility and respect personal relationships and what has been entrusted with including poetry and its music-related assignments.
•   3.2 Observe scientific integrity and ethics as a responsible citizen upon taking the course exams and assignments.

Course Content

1. Taweel (long), Basit (spread out)
2. Kamil (complete), Wafir (abundant)
3. Rajaz (trembling), Ramal (trotting)
4. Sari' (swift), Khafif (light)
5. Mutaqarib (nearing), Mutadarik (overtaking)
6. Less-used meters
7. What is allowed for the poet in the poetical necessity and differentiate between what is good and what is bad.
8. Rhyme letters and relating drawbacks.
9. The most important changes that deviated from the rhythm and rhyme system
10. Types of reconstructing in the rhythm and rhyme system and the scholars' opinion on it.
11. System of foot poetry and its methods in the feet and rhymes.
- Difference between the free verse and the prose poem and between both and the rhyming-metered poetry.

Textbook (s) 

- Ma'rouf, Al-'Asaad., Naif, Omar. Applied Prosody. 4th ed. 2001. Beirut: Dar Al-Nafaes
- Al-Malaekah, Nazek. Issues of Contemporary Poetry. 5th ed., 2014, Beirut, Dar El ilm Lil Malayin.

Course ID: ARAB 211