hook-rhyme

[rodo pfister]

Dear list members,

On behalf of Wolfgang Behr (University of Zurich) I post below his 
answer to Joshua's question. rodo

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I have a faint recollection, that this is sometimes called "andiplostic rhyme", after the rhethorical figure which describes the repetition of something occuring at the end of a sentence at the beginning of the next. For "hook rhyme", you might wish to check, whether it occurs in one of these terminological catalogues:


Rickert, William E. (1978), “Rhyme Terms”, Style 122 (1): 35-46.

Shahed, Syed Mohammad (1995), “Nomenclatures for Traditional Rhymes”, Asian Folklore Studies 54 (2): 308-14.

For the areal phenomenon cf. also

Hudak, Thomas John (1987), “Internal rhyme patterns in classical Thai poetry”, Crossroads 3 (2-3): 94-105.


My understanding was always, that what is more widespread in SE Asia is the so-called "climbing rhyme", esp. popular in Burmese poetry, where the rhyme word moves back gradually, "step by step", from the end to the beginning of a line within a poem or stanza. If you write anything on rhyming in Chamic, I would be certainly interested in reading it. Say hello to Jerry Edmondson, best wishes,

Wolfgang Behr

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Joshua and Amy schrieb:
> I've been looking at a rhyme scheme in Jarai (Chamic; 
> Vietnam/Cambodia), where the last word of one line rhymes with a word 
> near the beginning of the next line, as in the following, where we 
> have the rhyming pairs hra - rəpa, asəi - tələi (from Dournes 1976):
>
> ʔbhɨt ʔbong _hra_
> _rəpa_ ʔbong _asəi_
> _tələi_ ʔbu mao
> (jealousy eat salt / hungry eat rice / issue not exist)
>
> I've heard this called /hook-rhyme/, but I can't find that term (or 
> any other) in any books or articles. I understand this is fairly 
> common in SEA languages (I've been given an example in Khmer, and I've 
> seen instances in a dissertation on Rengao and an article on Halang).
>
> Can anyone point me to any sources that talk about or name this rhyme 
> pattern? So far I've come up short in my search.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joshua Jensen
> PhD Linguistics Student
> GRA for Linguistics Lab and Website
> Department of Linguistics & TESOL
> The University of Texas at Arlington
> http://ling.uta.edu/~josh/ <http://ling.uta.edu/%7Ejosh/>
> 817-522-4383
> ________________________________________________________

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