Rhyme: Making the Arbitrary Make Sense
Sep 11, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 168
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Episode description
Cole Porter's "You're the Top." Eighteenth Century bouts-rimés. The poetic task of making arbitrary rhymes make sense. Jakobson on the poetic function of language.
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