పుట:A grammar of the Telugu language.pdf/357

వికీసోర్స్ నుండి
ఈ పుట ఆమోదించబడ్డది

SECTION VIII. ON EHTME.

In rhyme, the Telugu rules are precise and simple. As to Prasa, entire uniformity of the consonant is the principal requisite. But occasionally a slight license occurs.

In the yati rhyme, it is necessary for the vowels* to correspond, as well as the consonants. The prasa allows E (for instance) to rhyme to no other letter: Tati will allow it to rhyme to Kha, Ga, and Gha. For a perfect uniformity is needless and it is enough if a consonant rhymes to any letter in the same line (or class) of the alphabet. Thus 5", 4>, X, and are alike; ^, « and are alike and & $ a $ are alike. The letter f, V not only rhyme to each other, but also to fat e, &c. The letter rhymes both to 8" and also to & and also to ff \ chha.

The sunna rhymes to a, The sunna also preceding any letter of a class, is allowed to rhyme to the nasal of that class. Thus wo8 may rhyme to £ because this is the nasal of the class to which tS belongs.

The letters R, viz. and *» are in the older writers not suffered to rhyme; because the » was harsher in sound than 8 and therefore was discordant. But the later poets for three centuries past have dropped the » wholly and to revive this letter is absurd.

Regarding Welsh rhymes, see the treatise in Newcastle Magarinefor 1822, penes me and Penny Cycl. in Welsh, p. 218—219.

Christian hymns generally deviate from the prosody of the secular poets. Thus Prudentius uses metres suited to tunes and disregards quantity.

In his song on Beatrice, Benedick calls scorn and horn a hard rhyme (Much Ado. 5. 2.) but in modern days, we see the ear perceives no difference.

The rules regarding vowels are equally easy. The short and long sounds of each vowel correspond. Thus u rhymes to u &c.

  • Similar to the Spanish rhymes called Assonants : See that article in the Penny Cyclopedia, Or Icelandic Rhyme, See Edinb. Ber, 1805. p. 384.