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Hi everyone,

I hope this is the right place to ask this, but I'd be interested to learn more about the effects of poetic devices. It's pretty easy to find reading that tells you "this is alliteration", "this is what iambic means", "this is what a trochee is", etc., but I rarely find discussions about what is achieved by all those things.

For example, George Wright mentions in Shakespeare's Metrical Art that an iamb makes a line sound more forceful, giving it momentum, whereas a trochee slows things down a little, which you might for example want to mix, interspersing a trochee into an otherwise iambic verse to make everybody pause and thus put emphasis on that specific part of it.

Is there some resource that discusses similar effects for the stylistic devices one can employ, and when one might want to use each? I'd imagine much of it may come down to "it just makes the line sound more beautiful", but if we can be a little bit more precise, I'd love to learn more about that

Thanks in advance for all answers!

Hello everyone,

I'd be curious to hear how far Iranian languages extended northwest. Ossetian is already quite far, but even Scythian languages more broadly are considered Iranian. Does anyone know more about the historical context? When and where would Proto-Scythian have been spoken, and how would it have gotten there given the mountains of Armenia and the Caucasus were in the way? There is of course the theory that the PII homeland was in the southern Urals (Sintashta Culture). Is that commonly used as an explanation (i.e. that the dialectal divergence between PIA (southern group) and Proto-Iranians (northern group) already started in the Sintashta region, and then the members of the Vedic culture went south to India, while of the Proto-Iranians some followed them south into Iran, while others went west towards Scythia)?

Thanks in advance for all the answers!