Cacophony in Robert Browning’s “Meeting at Night”

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10.2991/978-2-38476-503-4_8How to use a DOI?

Keywords

rhyme scheme; rhythm pattern; metre pattern; pitch articulation; music notation

Abstract

This article concerns with cacophony in one of Robert Browning’s poems, “Meeting at Night”. Musicality in his poem has often been overlooked; little is known about its rhyme, rhythm, and metre. The study of this article is intended to describe the poem’s sound elements using poetic scansion, and transform the sound elements into music arrangement using music notation. The significance of the study lies on two things: one, the poetic scansion constituting the poem’s rhyme scheme as well as rhythm and metre pattern; two, the music notation constituting the music arrangement. The study adopts Rene Wellek and Austin Warren’s concept of euphony, and it also adopts Tom Kolb’s music theory. The study applies Mary W George’s library research methodology. The analysis in the study falls into three stages: first, poetic scansion; second, pitch articulation; third, music notation. The analysis results in the poetic rhyme, poetic rhythm, poetic metre, pitch articulation, and music notation. The study brings forward transformation of the poetic scansion into the music notation. In all, Browning’s “Meeting at Night” is not only poetic, but it is also musical.

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BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Culture and Sustainable Development (ICOCAS 2025)
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