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This interdisciplinary collection explores the forms and aesthetics of rhyme in a variety of languages and from a variety of perspectives. A wide-ranging introduction that ends with a list and associated bibliography of rhyming traditions of the world is followed by thirteen chapters. These explore the history of rhyme, including Arabic and medieval Latin and the older Germanic languages, as well as literary and folk traditions in Northern Europe where rhyme plays a complex role alongside alliteration. Literary rhyme is explored from a psychological perspective, and oral composition with end rhyme is addressed. Discussions of modernist poetry, rap lyrics, and previously undiscussed traditions shed new light on the possibilities of rhyme. The book will be of interest to literary scholars, folklorists, and anyone interested in written, oral, and song traditions. Students, poets, and songwriters will find insights into the functions and aesthetics of rhyme.

Preface
Nigel Fabb and Venla Sykäri
Rhyme in the Languages and Cultures of the World
An Introduction ...11
I Rhyme’s Language-related Development and Use in Historical
Contexts
Dwight F. Reynolds
Rhyme in Arabic Oral Poetry ...47
Seppo Heikkinen
Multiple Origins?
Some Observations on The Medieval Latin Rhyme ...63
Frog
Rhyme in Alliterative Oral Poetry
A Look at Old English, Old Norse, and Finno-Karelian Traditions ...74
Kati Kallio
The Early History of Rhyme in Finnish Poetry ...99
Eeva-Liisa Bastman
Voicing a Song of Praise
Forms and Meanings of Sound Repetition in an 18th Century Hymn ...117
Maria-Kristiina Lotman and Rebekka Lotman
Rhyme in Estonian Poetic Culture ...134
II Rhyme’s Characteristics, Established Forms, and Variation
Nigel Fabb
Rhyme and Alliteration Are Significantly Different as Types of Sound
Patterning ...155
Venla Sykäri
Rhymer’s Microcosm
Variation and Oral Composition of the 19th Century Finnish Rekilaulu
Couplets ...172
Susanne Rosenberg
‘A Tight-rope walk’
Improvising Collectively with End Rhymes in the Style of the Swedish
Medieval Ballads ...197
Myfany Turpin
End Rhyme in Aboriginal Sung Poetry ...213
Kjell Andreas Oddekalv
Surrender to the Flow
Metre on metre or Verse in Verses? Lineation through Rhyme
in Rap Flows ...229
Sakari Katajamäki
Analysing Irregular Rhyme Sequences
Methodological Experiments with Lauri Viita’s Kukunor (1949) ...246
Stefan Blohm and Christine A. Knoop
What to Expect from A Poem? The Primacy of Rhyme In College Students’
Conceptions of Poetry ...264
List of Contributors ...277
Abstract ...280
Index ...281