Words rhyme with talk

The apogee of non-rhyming poetry (even if I treat such things very coldly) are free verse (French vers libre - free verse). Ver libre has neither rhyme nor syllable. It is essentially prose divided into lines. Free verse appeared much earlier than other types of poems and developed in parallel with them. Ver libre reached a high level in American poetry. I will give a few examples from classical free verse in Russian translations.
I glorify and glorify myself,

And what I accept, you will accept.

For every atom that belongs to me belongs to you.
I, an idle vagabond, call my soul,

I wander around doing nothing and, bending lazily,

I look at the summer blade of grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood is created from this soil, from this air;

Born here of parents born here of parents also born here,

Now, thirty-seven years old, in perfect health, I begin this song

And I hope not to finish before death.
Dogmas and schools let them wait.

Let them step back a little, they are good where they are, we will not forget them either.

I accept nature as it is, I allow it at any time, always

To speak freely with primal force.

(W. Whitman, translated by K. Chukovsky)
This is the first chapter of the famous “Song of Myself”, which in many respects laid the foundation for modern vers libre. However, most of the free verses I have encountered have no connection with the real world in their content and are reminiscent of the philosophy of Schopenhauer.

Here is another example:
And don't think that

art

this actor

talking

at the back of the stage.
It

Third

of which you do not see

Talking

Won with those scenes

of which you do not hear. (W. Lowenfels, translated by V. Rogov)
I can only say one thing about free verse: to write a really good free verse, you need to be a true genius. Behind beautiful rhymes and consistency of style, any semantic flaws can be hidden, but in the absence of means of technical decoration of a poem, it is very difficult to accurately maintain the meaning and logic of what the reader should see in the poem. Therefore: don't write free verse! This is difficult and most often says not about your high level, but about the fact that you simply do not know how to work with the rhyme.

So-called prose poems are close to vers libre - small emotionally rich lyrical works in prose without signs of meter and rhyme. Distinctive features - melody and melodiousness.
In days of doubt, in days of painful reflections on the fate of my homeland, you are my only support and support, O great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that happens at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!

(I. S. Turgenev)
Poems in prose, I note, are rather outdated. Many literary critics do not classify such works as poetry. In general, I agree with this point of view. It is rather lyrical and beautiful prose.

Other types of non-rhyming poem are haiku , tanka and a few others. Specific Japanese poetry, to be honest, is completely unsuitable and, moreover, not intended for translation into Russian and interpretation. Firstly, these verses reflect a philosophy that is completely alien to us, and secondly, the difference between these types is lost in translation, although it is present in the original. From my point of view, writing haiku or tanka in Russian is just stupidity, about the same as if a Japanese would write rhymed quatrains in Japanese about Russian nature and birch trees. The specificity of Japanese poetry is justified by the language in which there are no long and short syllables, stressed and unstressed syllables and, therefore, there are no stops.

Haiku (haiku, hai-kai) - a genre of Japanese poetry; unrhymed three-line, derived from the tank and consisting of 17 syllables (5 + 7 + 5). They originated in the 16th century during the extraordinary flowering of Zen Buddhism, which had state status. Only a trained master who had gone a long way to improve and hone his literary skills could write true haiku. Knowledge of haiku and the ability to compose them eventually became an integral part of the upbringing of a Japanese samurai warrior, who was supposed to have equanimity of spirit, detachment and the ability to admire the beauty of the mortal world. Basho (1644-169) were the classics of Japanese poetry who created unsurpassed examples of haiku. 4) and Ransetsu (1654-1707).
On a bare branch
Raven sits alone.
Autumn evening. (Basho)
Tanka (miika-uta) is also a genre of Japanese poetry. Non-rhyming five-line, consisting of 31 syllables (5+7+5+7+7). Differs in poetic elegance and conciseness.
To the night moon
I lifted my gaze and asked:
"My dear
is on his way,
Oh, when will we meet again?" (Man'yoshu)
Less well-known types of Japanese versification include kata-uta (5+5+7 pattern), uta sendoka (double kata-uta, 5+5+7 | | 5+5+7 with caesura between kata-uta), bussoku-sekitai ( a form derived from haiku, 5+7+5+7+7+7), hanka (a poem written without observing certain laws of syllabic strophic, but completed with a tanka stanza ... 5+7+5+7+7) , naga-uta (a poem built on a pairwise alternation of five and seven-syllable verses, ended with a kata-uta stanza 5+7+5+7+5+7... 5+7+7). Standing apart is the non-solid (endless) form ima-io-uta 7+5+7+5 | | 7+5+7+5 | | . ..with a big caesura after every 4th verse. It contradicts the general law of Japanese stanza, which requires the number 5 in the first place. The form took root under Chinese influence. As an example, I will give kata-uta:
My flock's house is not a house.

Oh, I'm in it as a guest... where are you?

Where is death, or where is life?
Free verse, tanka, haiku and similar forms have no syllable or meter, this is poetry of purely foreign origin. The roots of white versification are primordially Russian: this is how the "Lay of Igor's Campaign" is translated from Old Slavonic into modern language. In the original, it was written simply in continuous text, without paragraphs and division into words, only a few initial letters highlighted parts of the poem. But it was fairly easy to read, with the right accents and line breaks. From the classic white verses, one can also cite Gorky's "Song of the Petrel".

In principle, you can find at least a dozen more varieties of poetic forms that are not burdened with rhyme (for example, ancient Roman poetry), but I will not give them here, because the purpose of this treatise is to teach Russian versification specifically. In general, rhyme need !

Well, in fact, you can use non-rhyming elements. For example:
Waiter, pineapple for us

Cut thinly on a dish,

Sit next to me, drink, eat,

But here I didn't come up with a rhyme... (A. Bal)
This is a humorous poem about the mediocrity of some poets. As a matter of humor and theme, the absence of rhyme is not only appropriate, but even funny and necessary.

The absence of a rhyme is also acceptable in some songs, when the melody is sustained in such a way that it "obscures" the incorrect construction of the poetic line. For example,
Masha

Suitable for roof edge

And waves from the roof. Hear:

"Good bye, my baby!"

And tears off the body,

And spreads its wings,

And flies into the sky. (A. Shcherbina)
The song is very funny, and the characteristic melody allows you to bypass both the rhyme and the syllable (although there are hints of both). Such a technique - a combination of non-rhyming and rhyming lines - is called arithmia .

A very peculiar variety of rhymes, which, nevertheless, cannot be classified as full-fledged, was introduced into use by I. Rukavishnikov in the 1920s. These are the so-called semi-rhymes . Semi-rhymes are based on the consonance of line endings, but they are not a full-fledged rhyme, since they do not obey the general rules of rhyming, do not respect the number of rhyming syllables, and are distinguished by artificial negligence. The following lines can serve as examples of a semi-rhyme:
Your face is pleasant to my eyes.

I want to hug your belt with my hand.

Look at me, look at me lovingly.

And maybe love will enter me. (I. Rukavishnikov)

I am wounded by the snake of search.

I will grieve you, you, in love.

I need to put a lot of urns in the crypt.

And I will wound my soul with stormy betrayal.

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