Negro Folk Rhymes Wise & Otherwise - online book
A detailed study of Negro folk music, includes lyrics & sheet music samples.
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NEGRO FOLK RHYMES |
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Phrases and Periods are there in such symmetry as to satisfy our sense of rhythm.
I now turn attention to the rhyming of the lines in Negro verse. The ordinary systems of rhyming as set forth by our best authors will take in most Negro Rhymes. Most of them are Adjacent and InterÂwoven Rhymes. There are five systems of rhyming commonly used in the white man's poetry but the Negro Rhyme has nine systems. Here again we find a parallelism, as in case of music scales, etc. Five in each system are the same. The ordinary comÂmonly accepted systems are: |
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