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From: | Wol's lists |
Subject: | Re: Large set of parts |
Date: | Sun, 29 Apr 2018 13:42:46 +0100 |
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On 29/04/18 00:00, J Martin Rushton wrote:
Shakespeare is almost all poetry, not prose. And it rarely rhymes. I can't remember the correct term, but poetry is defined by repeating rhythms, not by rhyming. Much like music, actually ... :-)On 28/04/18 04:46, Karlin High wrote:On 4/27/2018 8:28 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote:It falls into the category of alliteration, which abounds in EnglishAs a poetry form, too - "Beowulf" and J. R. R. Tolkien's unfinished work "The Fall of Arthur" come to mind. Sort of like "rhyming" the beginnings of the words instead of the endings.Most poetry until Chaucer foisted the French custom of end-rhymes on us. See for example "Sir Gawaine and the Greene Knight" or "The vision of Piers the Ploughman".
Cheers, Wol
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