Literature lessons: what are the rhymes called rhymes?

Any schoolboy successfully engaged in literature classes, knows what rhymes are called without rhyme. Most often such works are called white verses, but there are other names.

How to create a poem?

Rhyme is the main sign of the poetic text. However, it is quite possible to create verses without rhyme. This is an experiment, an attempt to find a new form. It should be noted that if the author chooses an unrhymed type of versification, then he must follow this principle unchanged. If the rhymed lines alternate with the non-rhymed lines, then we get a pun, and not a verse.

Types of poems without rhyme

What are the names of rhymes without rhymes, but with a clearly marked size? These are white verses. In this manner, the poet of the middle of the 19th century M. Koltsov created a number of his works. A vivid example is the "Song of Hiawatha" by Longfellow. The size of the white verse is determined as usual. Shock syllables alternate with unstressed ones in strict sequence. Most often these poems are stylized either for folk songs, or for an epic. This is what replaces the rhyme and gives verse a certain zest.

Another example is the free-rhyme verse. An example of it can serve as ancient Greek poems and poems (for example, Horace).

But what are the names of rhymes without rhythm? It is a verse (the name comes from the French word and translates as "free verse"). They are like a prosaic text divided into lines. Verlibre appeared before the syllabic and syllabo-tonic rhymed verse. His heyday he reached in the literature of the United States. It's hard to write libel oen. Beautiful rhyme and rhythm often help to hide any flaws in the content. In the same verse, it is necessary to reconcile every phrase and every word. Only a true genius is capable of creating a good free verse.

Poems in prose

This is a special type of unrhymed poem. Perhaps the most striking example of such works are the poems of the great master of the word IS. Turgenev. He devoted his poems in prose to many themes: beginning from the Russian language and ending with profound, philosophical arguments about the meaning of human life and about death. Unlike vers libre, the poem in prose is not divided into lines. It is written in solid text. However, they are not related to poetry by rhymes or special devices, but by lyrical content. In such works there is no action and narration, plot and collision, therefore it is impossible to attribute them to the epic or drama.

Japanese unrhythmical verse

Japanese verse without rhyme is called hokku. There is, however, another variation - a tank. Hokku consists of 17 syllables, and the tank - of 31. To compose hokku, one should know the special rules of versification. The first line - 5 syllables, the second - 7, and the third line - again 5 syllables. The tank also consists of 5 lines, in which 5,7,5,7,7 syllables respectively. Japanese poetry allows you to briefly, succinctly and graphically describe any subject. The ability to write hokku is the ability to correctly choose words, only the best, most capacious phrases go to play. Of course, hokka in Russian is not so sonorous, and translations of Japanese poetry also lose in meaning.

So, what are the rhymes called rhymes? It can be a white verse, vers libre, a poem in prose, Japanese hokku or a tank.