Re: Poetic Devices (was: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde)

Steg Belsky cuendalve:
>Anyond else have any distinctive poetic
>devices in their conlangs?
I made one up about ten minutes ago, but I have no idea how original it
is. It goes by what I call "word rhythm", which is a combination of
stress and sonority patterns, and it only concerns the first word or two,
usually. Thus:

Kameri Vardail bavo sulre im.
Dameno ik mehu fekin ri vot.

That translates to "Vaults of Varda stand above me. / [They] Accept my
damp head into them." (I didn't claim it made sense.)

The sonority doesn't have to match perfectly, of course, which is why
there's a voiced plosive with an unvoiced one and a nasal with a
semivowel.

I have never heard of such a system being used, but perhaps I'm merely
ignorant.

~Wright.