Message Forum: Re: It's bad, but it could be verse.

Re: It's bad, but it could be verse.

Posted By: Fuzzpilz, on host 217.4.125.53
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2001, at 09:17:58
In Reply To: Re: It's bad, but it could be verse. posted by Sosiqui on Monday, November 26, 2001, at 14:29:18:

> Compare it to Milton, to Homer or Frost

Homer never rhymed. Not even his translators did, as far as I'm aware. The rhyme at the end of a line is, AFAICG, a relatively recent invention. I can't think where its roots may be: the Romans and the Greek only used metric verse, and the various Germanic peoples stuck to alliterative verse, as did, I think, the Finnish. I've never heard nor read any Celtic poetry, maybe that's where it comes from. Or it just started coming up sometime about the end of the Roman empire, or something. That would be a good excuse for it spreading around Europe.

> Sosi"poetry!"qui

Fuzz"ripper-apart of beautiful poetry"pilz

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Re: It's bad, but it could be verse. - Mike, the penny-stamp man - Thu, 11/29/2001, 06:59:33
Re: It's bad, but it could be verse. - Sosiqui - Tue, 11/27/2001, 14:47:26

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