ASEBL Journal – Volume 11 Issue 1, January 2015
pel’s ‘neural lyre’ in which they note an absolute universality in relation to poetics,
meter and attention to rhythm. Turner says, “All over the world human beings compose and recite poetry in poetic meter; all over the world the meter has a line length of
about three seconds, tuned to the three-second acoustic information-processing pulse
in the human brain. Our acoustic present is three seconds long” (1999: 22). The evidence here, again, seems very compelling that these rhythms speak to a broader pattern of appreciation and utility (indeed, what parent would choose to soothe a child
with a song or set of so