Re: Insane Question
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 27, 2003, 19:40 |
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Sarah Marie Parker-Allen wrote:
> I'm feeling like I need to come up with a language that will make rhyming
> easy.
Any language that uses lots of grammatical suffixes will be easy to
rhyme.
> Seriously, to write up a language that's primarily useful to poets
> and songwriters
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.
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