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Conlangery #21: Poetry

Conlangery Podcast

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Different Poetic Devices Work Depends on How Your Language Is Structured

In Arabic poetry, it is not uncommon to see a strict rhyme scheme for an entire poem that encompasses the final three syllables. That sort of trick would be considered a little bit vulgar in another language. In I, every noun, every verb, every adjective has required affixes and like to a certain point, adding rhyme would just be very similar to structural parallelism. So it might, that's one that's just both the phonology and the morphology needs to be considered sometimes.

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