Why are comics and poems alike 5: metrics p4

If we look at the following definition: “the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line” we can easily conclude that poems and comics are nothing alike in a matter of measure. Particularly since poems are measured in syllables. The syllable is one sound represented by a combo of consonants and vowels that can be counted within the basic unit of a poem called a line (or the more common in Spanish, verse). A bunch of lines make up a stanza (more commonly in Spanish a strophe). English and Spanish count in different ways and give the poems different names based on the count. The important thing is the use of rhyme. A rhyme is a repetition of sound. Symmetry is a repetition of image. And since rhyme is not just a repeated sound; for the repeated sound has been represented as a typographic image; poems and comics are alike in the use of symmetry. Symmetry can be mirrored, transferred, rotated or scaled. Comics can use all the four symmetries whilst poems , when they rhyme, use only transfer. However, poems and comics are alike when using this feature to communicate.

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SYLLABLES GET REPEATED: SOMETHING COMICS HAVE

No. Not about the sound. Or The words. About the image. The syllable; consonant + vowel, vowel + consonant, consonant + vowel + consonant, gets repeated and repetition is SYMMETRY.

WHAT ABOUT SYMMETRY?

Symmetry is when we repeat an image based the repetition in an imaginary axis from where we: reflect, rotate, transfer or scale. Whenever we use the same syllable in a different line, that is totally like symmetry; particularly the one of transferring or movement.

The four symmetries: mirror or bylateral, rotation, transfer and scale.

Voilà, comics and poems are alike because symmetry! (Without regard to poem’s symmetry being called rhyme).

That, given the comic uses symmetry to repeat elements in order to communicate like in the manga I have been using as an example. Haru no noroi by Asuka Konishi , adapted into live action.

First and second vignettes, transfer and scale symmetry.

In these covers, what you can take as a partial almost mirror symmetry is a trick to create movement and express the character’s emotional situation. When opposed to each other, they can’t be further away and when facing each other, it means the attraction building up. Thus we can talk not only of symmetry but of symbolism. Something poems do: metaphor. But I’m not talking metaphor. And I’m using these covers as example only because I liked the manga.

Am I genial or am I? Truthfully… I AM NOT. Nonetheless, this was just a clumsy attempt to make my hypothesis falsifiable in the same way I do everything. WRITING NONSENSE. What else is fiction but acceptable nonsense?

Don’t! Your likes, comments or curses won’t stop me from writing. I only hope you will read and think how to use symmetry in your next fiction. Pasto kalo.

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