Popular Voices pp 133–⁠156

Abstract

The aim of the study is to examine the structure of rhymes in different genres of Estonian popular poetry since the 1990s, that is, from the same period in which rhyme began to disappear from literary poetry in Estonian while surviving and even developing in popular poetry. The analysis derives from the approach proposed by Jaak Põldmäe, which takes into account the characteristics of the prosody of the Estonian language. On this basis, we have distinguished four levels: phoneme, prosody, stress pattern and word ending, and analysed these aspects in the rhymes of poetry texts by four authors from different areas of popular culture, including one songwriter (Mait Vaik), two hip hop artists (Genka and Metsakutsu) and the most popular Estonian Instagram poet Lauri Räpp. The results are compared with data from literary poetry from different periods.

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Lotman, M. K., & Lotman, R. (2025). Rhyme in Contemporary Estonian Popular Poetry. In M. Väina, M. K. Lotman, A. S. Bories, P. Ruiz Fabo, P. Plecháč, & S. Mett (Eds.), Popular Voices: Computational Analysis of Poetry and Song (pp. 133–156). Tartu: ELM Scholarly Press. doi: 10.7592/PP2025.08.lotman_lotman

DOI
http://doi.org/10.7592/PP2025.08.lotman_lotman

Print ISBN
978-9916-742-77-8

Online ISBN
978-9916-742-78-5

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