10-18-2016, 06:36 AM
The original comment was about end stopped lines with perfect end rhymes, which have truly been flogged and made leather of.
Italian and Spanish have the benefit of conjugation, plus Italian is the most beautiful language there is, so any comparison will be unfair.
Capablanca said, early in the last century, that chess was dead and a larger board with new pieces would be required to carry on the game. Yet here we are still soldiering on with Magnus Carlsen.
So it is with rhymed verse generally,
Italian and Spanish have the benefit of conjugation, plus Italian is the most beautiful language there is, so any comparison will be unfair.
Capablanca said, early in the last century, that chess was dead and a larger board with new pieces would be required to carry on the game. Yet here we are still soldiering on with Magnus Carlsen.
So it is with rhymed verse generally,
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe