Sri Naresh Keerthi wrote :

 

>This feature of poetry seems to have eventually percolated into
recitative/performative forms that were half-way between poems and songs,
as well as into genres that were entirely song like.

 

----- Both first syllable and second syllable intraline rhymings are features found in proverbs, riddles and other verbal folklore forms functioning as auditory aesthetic forms serving as memorising tools for the tradition-bearers of these oral traditions.

 

It is more reasonable to expect a sharing of this feature by the native verse-meters and lyrical forms with the folklore forms or diffusion of these features from the verbal folklore forms and folk songs into verse-meters rather than from verse-meters into song-forms. 



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