@incollection{BlohmKnoop2024,
  author    = {Stefan Blohm and Christine A. Knoop},
  title     = {What to expect from a poem? The primacy of rhyme in college students’ conceptions of poetry},
  series = {Rhyme and rhyming in verbal art, language, and song},
  editor    = {Venla Syk{\"a}ri and Nigel Fabb},
  publisher = {Finnish Literature Society},
  address   = {Helsinki},
  isbn      = {978-951-858-589-6},
  issn      = {2669-9583},
  url       = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-125165},
  pages     = {264 -- 276},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {We report results from an exploratory study of college students’ conceptions of poetry in which we asked them to name three things they expect from a poem. Frequency- and list-based analyses of their responses revealed that they primarily expect poems to rhyme, but they also identified a number of form-, content-, and reception-related genre expectations, which we discuss in relation to relevant previous research. We propose that rhyme’s predominance in college students’ genre expectations reflects its perceptual and cognitive salience during incremental poetry comprehension rather than its frequency in contemporary poetic practice. Our results characterize the genre conceptions of the population that empirical studies of poetry comprehension typically investigate, and thus provide relevant background information for the interpretation of empirical findings in this field.},
  language  = {en}
}