10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONORHYME»
Discover the use of
monorhyme in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
monorhyme and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Studies in Modern Arabic Prose and Poetry
THE USE OF MONORHYME (iltizam al-qafiya al-wahida) Monorhyme was the
main element of conventional Arabic poetry to be attacked by modern Arab poets,
besides the worn-out themes. In composing or translating long European poems,
...
2
Poetry Styles Book Four
(In Poetic Detail) To do the Monorhyme you must fight To rhyme all end words
like this one 'bite' Break it into stanzas or keep it tight No other rules required to
get it right But content's good when it gives height, To all that read or to others
recite ...
Alliance Poets World-Wide
3
Ibn `Arabī's Mystical Poetics
The theme running through the poem is that everything comes back to God. It
does not take much imagination to see how ultra-monorhyme is a useful device
to drive this point home: every verse similarly comes back to God. At each turn,
Ibn ...
4
Stones Speak - Hebrew Tombstones from Padua, 1529-1862
Until 1629 no other rhyme scheme approaches the importance of monorhyme; in
1655–1729 alternating rhyme numbers over half of the total output, and for two of
the next three generations it drops down to about a third. admittedly the figures ...
5
Between East and West: Polish and Russian Nineteenth-century ...
In the Persian ghazal, the monorhyme constitutes one of the means of assuring
the entire ghazal's unity. Early European Orientalists often overlooked this
element of the poetic genre (witness the above quoted fragment from Jourdain
which ...
6
Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia. Vol. 1-
Those sections are referred to in the HENDRE- GADREDD MANUSCRIPT as
awdlau, using the term in its original sense, but in modern usage (found from the
1/j.th century onwards) the awdl is the complete poem, and the monorhyme ...
7
Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry
The poet did not dare deviate from the [order of] monorhyme and from the topics
adopted by Arabic poetry since ancient times. and after describing this poetry
said, This was the kind of literature which the emigrants carried with them to their
...
Salma Khadra Jayyusi, 1977
8
Literary Disinheritance: The Writing of Home in the Work of ...
The qasidah with its distinct unity of rhythm and monorhyme was accused of
fragmentation due to the special care given to each bayt or verse which lead the
lines to be independent of each other — and this is in turn due to lyrical necessity
, ...
9
Eastern Luminaries Disclosed to Western Eyes: A Critical ...
In addition to meter and rhythm, the unity of the rhyme scheme (monorhyme) is
equally important to account for the quality of a poem. A good poem is expected
to bear a perfect rhyme scheme, while both hemistichs of the first verse often ...
du Christ and the Vie de St. L4ger, which are intended to rhyme in couplets
throughout, are apparently affected by the same influence and, by linking two
couplets together, offer occasional passages in monorhyme or assonance. So
with a few ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONORHYME»
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monorhyme is used in the context of the following news items.
Where to find Africa's poets - forget stuffy literature departments, and …
The poems are typically monorhyme with sixteen metres, making it easy to memorise. Indeed, the troubadors of medieval Europe are thought to ... «Mail & Guardian Africa, Jun 15»
Battle Lines
Almost all the poems are written in monorhyme—one rhyme for what is sometimes many dozens of lines of verse—and classical Arabic metres. «The New Yorker, May 15»
Iran Commemorates National Day of Hafez
Ghazal is a short monorhyme consisting of successive couplets whose lines all end with the same refrain phrase, thus they form a rhyme ... «Fars News Agency, Oct 13»
Literary History / My love is a gold, gold Jerusalem
Halkin succeeds even in tough cases, as for example, when there is no chance of reproducing Hebrew monorhyme. In one long poem, ... «Ha'aretz, May 10»
The genius of Rustaveli
The 1,576 quatrains of The Knight in the Panther's Skin are written in a particularly difficult form - the shairi, a 4-line stanza with monorhyme and ... «Messenger.ge, Apr 10»
Translator, poet champions medieval Persian verse
In "A Monorhyme for the Shower" he recalled: she's the girl I didn't dare. Approach, ask out, much less declare. My love to, mired in young ... «Stanford Report, Oct 08»
