Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0t30GP-0000ZWC; Wed, 11 Oct 95 14:28 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id D0C4F3D8 ; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 13:27:46 +0100 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 13:23:14 BST Reply-To: Don Wiggins Sender: Lojban list From: Don Wiggins Subject: Poetry To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 816 Lines: 19 coi mark,l > I'm posting some examples of one type of gismu rhyme. > > By my current estimate, there are 393 gismu which rhyme with at least one > other gismu in this particular way. There is certainly something about lojban which makes one want to immediately start writing poetry :-) I think that the basis of lojbani poetry will stem from the V'V construct. The da'amoi terbasna (penultimate stress) means that there are no 'easy' rhymes like the masculine rhymes in English. Fortunately, the 25 V'V combinations come to the rescue. Each of these, in general, has a rafsi and a cmavo form for all of consonants and an attitudinal with a bare vowel giving 35 possible rhymes for each. For instance, "le dzeko'o" (the Celt) and "po'o" (only). This makes life much easier for budding poets :-) co'o mi'e dn.