The student highlights Dante's ABA-BCB end-rhyme pattern and sing-song movement as part of what English readers miss.
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A student proposes that Italian's Latin-style endings make rhyme easier and give the language a smoother flow than English.
Aurelia says English rhymed translations exist but are generally poor compared with the sonic force of the Italian.
Jiang says Dante's meter and rhyme are designed to express the mathematical beauty and symmetrical structure of the universe.
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"...we don't get the opportunity to take advantage of the end rhyme scheme, the ABA, BCB. Yeah. And it goes, it would almost be..."
"...makes it more, uh, arithmetic, almost. It makes it easier to rhyme, and it makes it flow more smoothly than English, which is all..."
"I'm pretty sure there's some rhymed translations in English, but they are pretty bad. But I, I think what it's called, but..."
"...where the poetry, it is written in metered, it's written in rhyme as a way to express the mathematical beauty and structure of the..."
"...uh, for this kind of, uh, uh, cadence or, you know, rhyme in the, in the Italian literature? You know, it's, it's not rhymed."
"...I just looked it up terza rima is the form the rhyme scheme that you mentioned for David so like I think the terza..."
"rhyme scheme yeah I mean like just trying to figure out what he's trying to do it seems as he's trying to express the..."
"like outside of what we already talked about with the rhyme scheme returning, I think there is kind of maybe we can see a..."
"...would also include syllabi. We can't do the syllables and the rhymes and all that, okay? So we can't do the numerology as well...."
"...history linear, theological, or is it cyclical? Um, and it just rhymes. It's bound to repeat itself. And, um. Um, I've been working on..."
"...critic against Netanyahu and and such. I think those those ideas rhyme together. Now, most of Thiel's critics would say that he's the Antichrist..."
"...and American history and where we're at today, does this history rhyme? And what can we learn from the collapse of the Roman Republic..."
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