Point 6 of 8 — Lesson 1: The Poetic Experience, Its Elements and Organic Artistic UnityQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)
06Sixth: the expressive image, part three — music
Music isan element of the expressive image; it has its effect inthe soul's acceptance of the experience and its being moved by it. Music istwo colours.
The overt colour
It relies onthe regularity of metre and rhymeand everything with asound-ring the ear perceives.
Metre (wazn): thesound units on which poets compose their poems; the unit is calledtafʿīlah because it is built from the root "fa-ʿa-la".
Every set of feet forms a metre-mode (baḥr), andthe first to catalogue the modes was al-Khalil ibn Ahmad.
Each mode has a name such as al-Ṭawīl, al-Wāfir, al-Kāmil; andthe discipline that studies the metres of poetry is called ʿilm al-ʿarūḍ.
Rhyme (qāfiyah): theagreement of two or more lines in their final letter. The condition on the word that carries the rhyme is that it be born of the subject, settled in its place, neither dragged in for the metre nor forced where it does not belong.
A poet may observe besides this words matching in their rhythm — as in the saying ofAbu Tammām.
The covert colour
It isapprehended by the soul through the experience itself, and produces in itits own shocks and oscillations.
Its source isthe interaction of the words, phrases, images and imaginative figures, and their consistency within one harmonic whole that has its effect on the soul.
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