Re: Large set of parts

[Wol's lists]

On 29/04/18 00:00, J Martin Rushton wrote:
> On 28/04/18 04:46, Karlin High wrote:
> > On 4/27/2018 8:28 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> > > It falls into the category of alliteration, which abounds in English
> >
> > As a poetry form, too - "Beowulf" and J. R. R. Tolkien's unfinished work
> > "The Fall of Arthur" come to mind. Sort of like "rhyming" the beginnings
> > of the words instead of the endings.
>
> Most poetry until Chaucer foisted the French custom of end-rhymes on us.
>   See for example "Sir Gawaine and the Greene Knight" or "The vision of
> Piers the Ploughman".
Shakespeare is almost all poetry, not prose. And it rarely rhymes. I 
can't remember the correct term, but poetry is defined by repeating 
rhythms, not by rhyming. Much like music, actually ... :-)

Cheers,
Wol