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in the original, or aural, versions, and vice versa. To state
that both music and poetry are composed of sound,
without specifying the degree to which this is true,
therefore, becomes misleadingly inadequate. The
difficulties of such a reduction have resulted not only in
categorical aesthetic confusions, but in those which
produced the unnecessary conflicts among traditional
European prosodic theories since Hellenistic times. The
locus classicus of these confusions for our literary history
occurred in the equation of what was actually a musical
system (Greek metre) to a more graphic prosodic one
(Latin quantitative scansion). It seems to be generally
true that borrowed foreign literary conventions, as well as
revivals and adaptations of past traditions, invade the
linguistic structure of poetry at the written level. Any
thorough formalistic analysis of the structure of poetry,