Mayakovsky called poetry "a ride into the unknowable." Indeed, this is one of the most interesting and mysterious types of creativity. How are verses compiled, how are they composed, how are those amazing images that excite the soul, touch the heart, cause a smile of delight or tears of sadness? Akhmatova wrote that they grow "out of litter, unaware of shame ...". The phenomenon of poetry is probably unraveled. But here are some secrets of how poetic lines are created, literary scholars still discovered. For example, how to choose a rhyme for a particular word? Let's try to find out.
From the theory of literary criticism
What could be the rhyme for the word "star"? Before turning to practice, we will understand the theory - what is rhyme in general. In the dictionary of literary terms, a definition is given: this is a consonance (coincidence), full or partial, of the endings of two or more words in a poetic speech. Rhymes are a positional phenomenon inherent in finite words in lines. They act as an organizing principle, linking the lines and stanzas into a single whole. So, the rhyme for the word “star” in Leontyev’s famous song “Sorry” to the words of L. Zavalnyuk reads as follows: “When a star rolls across the sky, / What night trains sing / ... Love never dies ...”.
Rhyme Types
Besides sound matches, rhyme is closely related to stress. Exactly which syllable in a word is stressed, determines the type of rhyme:
- For example, the words “young” and “home”. The stress in both falls on the endings. This is the so-called male rhyme. It is widespread in poetry and has great expressive capabilities. In particular, it gives the poetic lines musicality, harmony. In this regard, the rhyme for the word star is selected such: “riding”, “thrush”, “reins”, and others: “Like a plum, a star hangs / The thrush song comes along / Hear, spring has come / These are her voices!”
- Female type of rhyme. We are talking about it if the penultimate syllables in strict phonetic drawing or mixed are stressed. The rhyme for the word "star" in this case is the following: "county", "congress", "conversation" and others. One of the romantic poets wrote about the revolution: "Long live the symbol of the congress / Applause, people! / Fiery star / Star of millions of fates!"
Accurate and inaccurate
Depending on the accuracy of the matches, the harmonies can be complete and incomplete. The first include combinations of the type: “years / never”, “will turn / knock”, “alley / sorry”, etc. To find the rhyme just for the word "star", use the words "nests", "furrow". Incomplete ones - assonance (vowels coincide, consonants - no) and dissonance (only consonants coincide): "the word - on the left - glory", "the moon - fog", "me - fire." And what can you choose for the word "star"? A rhyme, for example, is: "a series." For example: “A blue star shines / In my window the lamp is on / The nights are sleepless sequence / And there is no peace, there is no joy ...”
Blank verse
Speaking of poetry, one cannot but mention the so-called white verses. In them, the organizational beginning is rhythm. Rhyme as such is absent. White verse is characteristic, for the most part, for dramatic works. In particular, it was this form that Pushkin used to create his “Stone Guest” (cycle “Little Tragedies”). As for the word “star,” the classic example is “Listen” by Mayakovsky. Without rhyming anywhere, it is repeatedly found in various grammatical forms, including the initial one: "... so that at least one star lights up every night / over the roofs ...".
About the symbolism of the image
The "starry" theme in poetry is extremely popular and is used very widely. This is due to the ambiguity of the image itself and to the huge number of those objects and concepts that it can determine. Hence, the rich semantic and combinative possibilities of the word. Thanks to them, there appeared those literary masterpieces that lovers of the great Russian language enjoy.