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NEGRO FOLK RHYMES |
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HI a. The Regular Rhyming Doublet. It is the same as our common interwoven rhyme and is very common among Negro Rhymes. There is one peculiar Interwoven Rhyme found in our collection; it is "Watermelon Preferred." In it the second Rhyming Doublet is divided by a kind of parenthetic Rhythmic Solitaire.
III b. The Inverted Rhyming Doublet. It is the same as our ordinary Close Rhyme.
The writer had expected to find the Supplemented Rhyming Doublet among Negro Rhymes but peculiarly enough it does not seem to exist.
IV a. The Regular Rhymed Cluster. It consists of three consecutive lines in the same stanza which rhyme. An example is found in "Bridle Up a Rat," one of whose stanzas we have already quoted. It is represented by the lettering (a
(a (a IV. b. The Divided Rhymed Cluster. It includes ordinary Interrupted Rhyme—with the lettering (a An example is found in the Ebo or (a Guinea Rhyme "Tree Frogs." (b (a But in Negro Folk Rhymes two lines may divide the
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