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Re: KlimerickwIj cha'DIch (reprise)

*klimerick*wIjvo':

> jIH mu'uHmoHbe' HIqlIj,
> paw'DI' loD 'oy'be' mIQwIj,

ja' DloraH:

> curious about the use of mIQ...
> Are you simply from another region of the empire or
> did you use it because it is closer to HIq than Quch is,
> and you're trying to match more than just the Ij ending?


First, a disclaimer:  I have grave doubts about the rhyming of Klingon 
verse.  I don't think Klingons would go in for anything so ear-pleasing and 
assonant.  But since you ask, I understand rhyme as a repetition of the 
last stressed vowel sound in a line and everything thereafter.  So, in my 
book, {HIqlIj} and {QuchwIj} simply don't rhyme.  (Yeah, yeah, I know I 
broke the rhyme by matching {q} with {Q}, but you gotta give a poet *some* 
liberty.)

qa'ral

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