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There are some tricks like stock phrases that often take up half a line, but rhyme is not among them. Epic poetry wasn't written to rhyme.
by hopw_roewur_ne 3y ago
There are some tricks like stock phrases that often take up half a line, but rhyme is not among them. Epic poetry wasn't written to rhyme.
- jeroenhd 3y agoPerhaps "rhyme" isn't the right word. There's a certain flow to the way some of the words are laid out. Part of that is the metre shaping the words possible but part of it also seems very deliberate. It certainly doesn't have much of the last syllable rhyme you would expect today.
- tremon 3y agoAlliteration and consonance are forms of (the broader definition of) rhyme.
- lupire 3y agoIt's interesting that rhyme detived from the word rhythm, but rhyme is the complement of rhythm.