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Lurkers, poetic forms

From:Shreyas Sampat <nsampat@...>
Date:Monday, April 24, 2000, 2:43
> > Misaraeli alana 'e nadiku rihanayu. > > Miailahueli šimi qarunu matisari. > > Mu kevanaruele šehanu, > > Mueredelemo šadunu mahaelu. > > Me like! It reminds me of... or maybe it's just a deja vu or > something... hmm. > > t.
Thank you. I designed it to look a bit like a distant IE offshoot; many of the roots I have are mangled versions of words from various natlangs. <nadi, from Gujarati or Hindi, ilahu from Arabic through Swahili, muerede from the Romance family, etc.> If you're getting a deja vu, it seems I've done something right. It was a nice coincidence too, that every line started with /m/. Maybe it'll be a Rišuli poetic form, some syllable-count pattern and lines beginning with some series of letters. Alliterative verse would likely be the next development from there, along with pure syllable-count forms like the haiku (which'll never workin its pure form; most inflected forms are a good 4-5 syllables long anyway.) Incidentally, is mora a purely Japanese term? Does it have the same definition for all languages, or do each lang's mora have different tendencies? I take the accepted Japanese definition to be mora: (syllable or syllabic consonant. long vowels are two mora.) Are other Japanese poetic styles also related to mora-count, or are there also other styles? -- -Shreyas Loth 77 http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/lothlorien/artists/ssampat/ssampat.html