Third try on alliteration

["sshiskom" <tinuviel@sparcs.kaist.ac.kr>]

.i le CINki cu CMOni || CA le nu CARvi
.i le PELxu cu FARlu || .i PY PEZli
.i le BANfi ba SIPna || .imu'i bo se BALvi le DUNra
.ije MU'i gi MI go'e || gi MENli TATpi

Bugs are chirping in the rain,
Yellow-fall, those are leaves.
Frog will sleep for it will be wintertime,
And I will do the same for my mind is tired.

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What is an alliterative meter?

I think Tristan Mc Leay could do much better job at explaining
this than me, but here's my try:

(If you don't want to listen to beginner's try, go to
http://alliteration.net/ and read 'em. Great resource.
But it won't talk about Lojban, of course.)

1. There's four syllables which bears special emphasis
in each line. (Those are marked capital above.) These
should be stressed syllable in polysyllabic word, or
syllable in monosyllabic word. Also these syllables are
contained in semantically significant part of the phrase.

2. A line is composed of two-half lines, each containing
two of stressed syllables. (This is marked || above.)
Half-lines should be a natural phrase in itself. (Not
cut in the middle.)

3. Two of stressed syllables, namely the first on in each
half-line, must alliterate. (What is alliteration is
defined language-dependent.)

4. Optionally, third alliteration can be put on the second
stressed syllable of the first half-line.

5. In traditional style, the last stressed syllable (the
second one in the second half-line), must not alliterate.
(This is because old Germanic languages of which this meter
is born was all falling-tone. But modern English is not,
and middle English poets (as opposed to old English poets)
violate this from time to time. Thus traditional style.)

6. For Lojban, I decided that consonant cluster alliterates
with single consonant. So /tr/ati and /tc/ena, /c/inki and
/c/moni alliterates. Call me lazy.

7. Traditionally, only noun, adjective, in a less extant
verb, rarely pronoun, only those are semantically significant
and can have metrically relevant alliteration. For Lojban,
I decided gismu (of course), and also BAI cmavo, in a less
extant pronoun and pro-bridi, rarely PU or PA, are allowed.
Thus {mu'i} and {mi} get alliteration above, also {tu'i}
in "tu'i le tarci". I should consider using cmene and
fu'ivla -- they will be handy. Also PA+MOI or PA+ROI must
be nice to use.

mi'e sanxiyn.