[lojban] A lojbanic rhyme schema

[vitci'i <celestialcognition@gmail.com>]

Different cultures have had different rules for what sort of repetition
is considered poetic: rhyme, assonance, consonance, etc. I wanted
something unique and inherently lojbanic. Here's my proposal.


Two words {jborimni} iff they share at least one rafsi-candidate.[1] For
example, "bangu" and "bakni" jborimni because they share the
rafsi-candidate "-ban-".

For purposes of this definition, the rafsi-candidates of a cmavo are
considered to be its actual rafsi (if any) and itself.

Lujvo are read as their veljvo (e.g., "brivla" is treated as equivalent
to "bridi valsi"). Fu'ivla/zi'evla never jborimni with anything.
(Self-jborimni is considered a degenerate case, to be avoided.)

Cmene should be quasi-parsed: ".lojban." rhymes as "logji bangu" (e.g.
with "bargu"); ".alis." rhymes as ".a lis." (e.g. with "lisri").


Note that (lo se gismu be fa zo jborimni) is not necessarily transitive.


This definition can be used in a variety of verse structures. Perhaps
you might want ends of lines to jborimni, or beginnings, or the
beginning of each line with its end, or to use jborimni placed
irregularly throughout the middles of lines.



[1] See http://dag.github.com/cll/4/6/ for the rules on deriving rafsi
candidates from gismu.

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