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Re: Insane Question

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 16:40
Nik Taylor wrote:
> Any language that uses lots of grammatical suffixes will be easy to > rhyme.
Yes and no. It seems to work OK in Italian (cf. John Cowan's Dante quote today), but AFAIK Spanish poetry considers it jingly to rhyme e.g. participles in -ado/ido, or words ending in -ación, -mente. It does of course happen....

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Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>