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Thai Poetry - Coggle Diagram
Thai Poetry
It consists of five main forms
Khlong
The among oldest Thai poetic forms.
This is reflected in its requirements on
the tone markings of certain syllables, which must be marked with mai ek or mai tho.
Chan
Chan is derived from Pali and Sanskrit metres, and based on the Vuttodaya, a Sri Lankan treatise on Pali prosody.
Syllables are classified as either "light", those with a short vowel and open ending, or "heavy"; See also Light and heavy syllables under Sanskrit prosody.
Karp
It is close to Chan.
but are not required by the rules. (light and heavy)
Klon
Klon originally referred to any type of poetry. In the narrow sense it refers to a more recently developed form where a stanza has four wak, each with the same number of syllables.
Rai
Rai is probably the oldest Thai poetic form and was used in laws and chronicles.
Thai poetic works follow established forms, known as chanthalak .
Almost all have rules
governing the exact metre and rhyme structure.
The number of syllables in each line and
which syllable rhymes with which.
Certain forms also specify the tone or tone marks of
syllables; others have requirements of syllable "heaviness".
Alliteration and within-line
rhyming are also often employed, but are not required by the rules.