Abstract
A surprising amount of 20th-century (and earlier) English-language poetry employs rhyme, but not the rhyme we normally think of, which marks the end of the line in metrical poetry, but a kind of half-intentional half-accidental rhyme that can appear anywhere within the text. This type of rhyming, which I term 'sporadic' and distinguish from 'systematic,' has illuminating potential as it relies on, but also departs from traditional rhyme functions. As such, it asks for a new theorization. In this essay I elaborate the core characteristics of sporadic rhyming, and then exemplify and qualify these through a series of readings.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 101-117 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Language and Literature |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2014 |
Keywords
- Jakobson
- Modern
- poetry
- retrospectivity
- rhyme
- sound
- sporadic
- systematic