Poetry (was: *swesor - Retraction)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> Richard:
> >In what sense do *px'ter- and *'maxter- rhyme? (' = stress)
>
> me:
> >In the same sense that French "combiner" and "retrouver" rhyme.
>
> Richard:
> >That's far too subtle an answer. You should have pointed out that
> >the protoform is *max'ter- (e.g. OE mo:dor) in which case they do
> >rhyme properly.
>
> Does the accent issue disturb you? I still think they form a nice
> rhyming pair despite any accent differences. Perhaps it's a matter

of

> poetic taste.

After you cited French at me, I thought you'd appreciate the
difference between masculine and feminine rhymes, and therefore the
dubiousness of cross-gender rhymes.

I trust one can have rhymes without their being used in poetry. As
far as I am aware, the earliest known Indo-European poetry did not
use rhyming, but was based entirely on rhythm, either quality based
or stresss based. By 'earliest' I am thinking of early Latin, Greek,
Vedic Sanskrit and Avestan. Do we know much of Hittite poetry?

Rcihard.