tonal rhythms

[Brian Eric Farnell <bfarnell@xxxxxxx>]

The English language naturally falls roughly into iambic
pentameter, probably some innate sense of aesthetics.  Tonal
languages should do the same with their tones.  I know tonal
patterns are very important with Chinese poetry and there are
rules about certain tones that change when preceded by others in
everyday speech, though these are not always reflected when
written, it depends on the writer.  What I was wondering was, if
you removed every character but the gallows characters, do you
end up with any outstanding Letter Serial Correlation patterns? 
Obviously it's going to be high with such a small character set,
but maybe some patterns emerge that would distinguish the
gallows characters as something like a tone marker or a similar
sort of bit.  It probably wouldn't show as much of a pattern if
they were related to something akin to the Russian 'soft sign'. 
I assume this because vowel sounds, tones and stresses tend to
make up a large part of the natural rhythm of a language. 
Certain emerging patterns patterns might fingerprint a specific
tonal language, even a much changed one I believe would still
hold the natural rhythm of the language.  Although in contrast
to that, I believe classical Chinese had only 3 tones plus a
neutral where Mandarin now has four, but the one that was added
is the big loser in the tone change rules so the language still
probably comes out similarly.  
Regards,
Brian