Τhe paper aims to promote discussion concerning the rhyme terminology in Modern Greek by complementing the already exisitng classification by Xenophon Kokolis with emphasis on the so-called "near-rhymes". As an exemplary model has been...
moreΤhe paper aims to promote discussion concerning the rhyme terminology in Modern Greek by complementing the already exisitng classification by Xenophon Kokolis with emphasis on the so-called "near-rhymes". As an exemplary model has been chosen the poetry of Nasos Vayenas, whose idiosyncratic exploitation of rhyme possibilities has already been noted by his critics. Nevertheless, rhyme in the poetry of Vayenas is not at all "imperfect", "dissonant" or "para-rhyme" as it has been described; on the contrary, it has to be considered as the logical conclusion of Vayenas's original tendency for a rhythmic order of his verses, an order which was, subsequently, theoretically systematized as a demand for a "re-enchantment of poetry". Unlike the so-far used terms, the suggested in this paper nomenclature for the "free" rhymes employed by Vayenas attempts both to call attention to rhyme dissonantly consonant and/or consonantly dissonant possibilities, and to consider rhymes with regard to the experience of free verse.
