Tags
choka, cliches, Japanese poetry, lyricism, onomatopoeia, rhyme, scansion
The old verse is best:
toil is ennobled by it.
Even a beast’s cry is onomatopoeic.
I know what I like
and I don’t mean a good rhyme,
necessarily,
or rigid scansion.
Even transferred epithets
can be somewhat trite.
Melodic lyricism
conveys true feeling.
Even cliches from the past
have elements of truth.
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