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Topic:nineteenth-century poetry
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Արևմտահայ և արևելահայ տաղաչափության մի քանի սկզբունքային տարբերությունների մասին (On Some Fundamental Differences between Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian Metrics)

Jrbashyan, Ashkhen, 2026
Բանբեր Երևանի համալսարանի. Բանասիրություն / Bulletin of Yerevan University B: Philology, Vol. 17, No. 2(50), pp. 6–25; DOI 10.46991/BYSU.B/2026.17.2.006

Jrbashyan examines principled differences between Eastern and Western Armenian versification that surfaced from the mid-nineteenth century, when the vernacular was being made into a literary medium and the phonetic and accentual divergence of the two branches began shaping poetic form. Syllabic verse formed in the tenth to twelfth centuries had bequeathed rules later codified in Mekhitarist theory. The central question was the rhythm-forming role of stable stress in the poetic line: the Mekhitarists required stress to mark the caesura, while late nineteenth-century Eastern Armenian poetry abandoned that requirement in favour of syllabic equality. She concludes that Western Armenian syllabic verse is an intermediate form combining stress and syllabic principles.

Armenian versificationWestern ArmenianEastern ArmenianMekhitarist philologyprosody
ArmenianRead Արևմտահայ և արևելահայ տաղաչափության մի քանի սկզբունքային տարբերությունների մասին (On Some Fundamental Differences between Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian Metrics) (opens in a new tab)

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