Sunday, August 7, 2022

Songs with a single rhyme

I was listening to some Mandarin Chinese songs and noticed that the song "絲路" (Silk Road) by 梁靜茹 (Fish Leong) and the song 陪我看日出 (Watching the Sunrise With Me) by 蔡淳佳 (Joi Chua) share something interesting. All the rhymes in both songs end with the same vowel (the vowel u in IPA). Is this common in Mandarin Chinese songs? Does it occur frequently in other languages as well?