Read the following poem:
Point of view
I'm small, they tell me,
and I get very angry.
I have to look at everyone
with the chin up.
But if ant spoke
and see me from the ground,
I was going to say, for sure:
– Oh my, how big!
(Pedro Bandeira)
Note that in some verses of the poem the author used the same combination of sounds and letters between the words that close them, as in:
zangadored/get upadored
teato the/grandto the
This similarity of sounds in certain places in the verse is known as rime. But pay attention! The rhyme is a coincidence of sounds and not from letters. Thus, there can be different types of rhymes that perform in different ways the combination between the sounds of the verses.
Now see two types of these rhymes:
The) perfect rhymes – are those that have an absolute identity between the sounds.
The door
I'm made of wood
wood, matter mhello
there is nothing in the world
More alive than a phello
I open it slowlybaby
to pass the boybaby
I open well carefullyadored
to spend the loveadored
I open it very pleasantthreshing floor
to cookthreshing floor
I open superSo
to pass the capiSo
I close the front of the house
Closing the front of the roomhe
I close everything in the world
I only live open in cme!
(Vinicius de Moraes)
It is interesting to note that in the last stanza, the poet makes a perfect rhyme with the combination of sounds and not from letters:
fourthhe/ çme
See another example of this combination of sounds with different letters in the poem below:
Grandmother's lap
There are grandmothers who are differentloved,
no dog, cat,
horse or duunderstand.
pet chicken
it's what grandma carries
like a treasure map,
back and forth
(they look like two dancers).
and for whom it counts
her secrets, speaks of the weather,
of what you are going to harvest, of what you are going to plant.
The chicken agrees: oh,
disagrees: poop,
sometimes sleep, sometimes wake up
and often forgets
that the grandmother is not a chicken.
Despite being so hot,
the grandmother is a person.
(Roseana Murray)
B) Imperfect rhymes: are those in which there is no absolute identity between the sounds, being performed in two ways:
combination of accented vowels and and O, semi-open with semi-closed:
How do you love the twilight of aurOfrog,
The gentle turning that the forest waves,
The whisper of the winding fountain,
A smiling and sedu imagetOfrog;
(How I love you – Gonçalves Dias)
See that in this poem the author used a vowel combination partially open with one semi-closed for the construction of the rhyme:
ourOfrog/seductOfrog
combination of an oral vowel with a nasal vowel:
That he, the sun, floods
The sea, when põand,
dying image
From a heart that breaksOi...
(John of God)
Note that the poet combines sounds between a oral vowel is nasal:
Põand/fOi
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