User:Tragicbooty/The Rhyming Couplet

The Rhyming Couplet

Ancient

Egyptian

Circa 4th millennium BC, a long time before you and me, a way of writing stuff was born and it was called cuneiform. This crude wedged lettering first lent, the words a pictographic bent, and soon because of mans great need, for stuff on which the mind might feed, they quickly took to writing rhyme, (although of course not all the time). The simplest of rhymes we see, from about fourteen hundred BC, were found in Armana on the Nile, and etched in cuneiformic style. The tablets (which are baked of clay), speak of the topics of the day, then at the bottom of the note, amusing pictographs are wrote, (much like the cartoons of our age, are written on the funny page). The first amusing couplet found, stars Tutankharmun's faithful hound; This image once gave much delight, but now, well, judge for yourselves (right).

"Gar-feeld catches 40 winks, and looks just like the new built Sphinx".

But cuneiform was limited, and in it little could be said, so writing became more specific, I give you all the hieroglyphic! Although the carving was excessive, on the whole it's more expressive, and quickly it spread helter-skelter, up and down the Nile delta. Because of more communication, rhyming grew across the nation, and so it fast became the norm, to write stuff in a rhyming form.

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