Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song

• Other Authors: Sykäri, Venla, Fabb, Nigel
• Language: English
• Published: Finnish Literature Society / SKS 2022
• Subjects: rap/hiphop; folk poetry; oral poetry; alliteration; rhyme; poetry; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBG Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge::JBGB Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology); thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics; thema EDItEUR::D Biography; Literature and Literary studies; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music and musicology; Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetry::DCF Poetry by individual poets; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVL Music: styles and genres; karelian
• Online Access: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60294; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12657/60294; https://doi.org/10.21435/sff.25

This collection of thirteen chapters answers new questions about rhyme, with views from folklore, ethnopoetics, the history of literature, literary criticism and music criticism, psychology and linguistics. The book examines rhyme as practiced or as understood in English, Old English and Old Norse, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Karelian, Estonian, Medieval Latin, Arabic, and the Central Australian language Kaytetye. Some authors examine written poetry, including modernist poetry, and others focus on various kinds of sung poetry, including rap, which now has a pioneering role in taking rhyme into new traditions. Some authors consider the relation of rhyme to other types of form, notably alliteration. An introductory chapter discusses approaches to rhyme, and ends with a list of languages whose literatures or song traditions are known to have rhyme.