Excerpt from Serbian Ballads The metre employed is almost invariably decasyllabic and unrhymed, with a caesura in the middle of the line, on either side of which greater varieties of speed and scansion are attainable than in the facile but monotonous rhythms of Scott or Byron. They are meant to be chanted or recited, to the primitive accompaniment of the gusla or one-stringed fiddle; and though they are really untranslatable, I have aimed above all in these very inadequate versions at rendering them suitable for recitation ...
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Excerpt from Serbian Ballads The metre employed is almost invariably decasyllabic and unrhymed, with a caesura in the middle of the line, on either side of which greater varieties of speed and scansion are attainable than in the facile but monotonous rhythms of Scott or Byron. They are meant to be chanted or recited, to the primitive accompaniment of the gusla or one-stringed fiddle; and though they are really untranslatable, I have aimed above all in these very inadequate versions at rendering them suitable for recitation and thus preserving some fair idea of the atmosphere of the original. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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