Headline from November 1st’s Isolezwe: Waphuza ugologo wadlwengula ugogo. Horrific but rhetorically interesting. The phrase contains homoeoarxheia (words sharing the same prefix), alliteration (words sharing consonants), assonance (words sharing vowel-sounds) and it scans as a pair of semi-inverted 7-beat dactylic pentameters: {long-short-short / short-short-long / short} where Greek would have : ‘Raspberry Strawberry Jam’ {long-short-short […]
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