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Udaiyaathathu
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The udaiyaathathu is a classic Southeast Asian poetic form with influences from South Asia. It is also known as "the unbroken form". Structurally, the first word of every line in the udaiyaathathu is also the last word of the next line. This chain continues unbroken until the very last line of the udaiyaathathu, where the first word of the last line is the last word of the first line of the piece. More complex variants of the udaiyaathathu include extensive variations of internal rhyme, where one, two or even three words per line rhyme with each other line. Distinct from western forms, end-stopped rhyme is frowned upon as disruptive and ostentatious in the udaiyaathathu. |
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