Re: Insane Question

Nik Taylor skrub:
> Rhyming is common in modern English poetry, but it's not essential.
> Many cultures don't use rhyme at all in poetry.  Japanese uses
> mora-count, Old English used alliteration, Greek and Latin used patterns
> of stressed and unstressed syllables.
IIRC, the Greek and Latin form was more like long and short syllables, but
the modern parallel forms use the same patterns on stress (such as anapests,
iambs, trochees, ktp).   Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this.

Jake