From 01021e10e247d7b60d008e3bffcbf27cb37646a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Susan Quigley Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 22:54:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'translate/writing-poetry/01.md' --- translate/writing-poetry/01.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/translate/writing-poetry/01.md b/translate/writing-poetry/01.md index 3687691..aaa7553 100644 --- a/translate/writing-poetry/01.md +++ b/translate/writing-poetry/01.md @@ -11,17 +11,17 @@ Poetry is one of the ways that people use the words and sounds of their language * Repetition of some or all of a line * Lines of similar length * Dramatic imagery -* Old words and expressions * Different use of grammar, including * incomplete sentences * lack of connective words +* Old words and expressions * The same sound used at the end or at the beginning of two or more lines * Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky. (from an English rhyme) -Below there are examples from the Bible for all these except for the last one about using the same sounds. It would be difficult to show here how Hebrew uses repeated sounds in poetry. +Below there are examples from the Bible for all these except "Old words and expressions" and "The same sound used at the end or at the beginning of two or more lines." It would be difficult to show here how these features were used in the original languages of the Bible. #### Some places to look for poetry in your language