Tone Rhyme (was: POETRY/TRANS.: 2 poems & "googogigglabyte")

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:19:50 EDT J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> writes:
>     I just wanted to share two poems by two contemporary Chinese
> poets
> (translate into Natlang(s) and/or Conlang(s) if you dare, hehe, have
> fun
> ::wicked grin:: [ALSO look below my sig.line for translations of
> "googolgigglabyte". Much thanx to those who have contributed so
> far...]):
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Hmmm... talking of Chinese poetry, does anyone know if there's such a
thing as "tone rhyme" in tone (static or contour) languages?  So, for
instance, instead of rhyming lines by having them end in the same
sequence of consonants and/or vowels, they would end in the same sequence
of tones?


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