"song melos" (externally imposed meter)
"charm melos" (internally derived from sound & rhythm patterns)
the distinction comes from Andrew Welsh's The Roots of the Lyric: Primitive Poetry & Modern Poetics
Bernstein connects it to "the spellweaving / & spellbinding functions of / nonoccidental, / nonoriental poetries, such as those collected in / Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the / Sacred"
> from Charles Bernstein's A Poetics (1992)
> tagged with #tribalism, #poetry_craft_techniques, #sound, #rhythm, #magic, #poetry
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