Subject rhyme from Kenner:
There are subject rhymes, two sensibilities may rhyme, there are culture rhymes. The Homeric similie rhymes some narrative event with a vignette….So Pound, 1915, assaying a visual rhyme…Arnault…sounds in each stanza rhyming with sounds in the next because the matter, stanza by stanza, accords.
The Cantos affords a thesaurus of subject rhymes. Many heroes rhyme with Odysseus, and a house of good stone rhymes with a mountain of wheat, strong flour, the mind of Agostino di Duccio. Era, 92-93
Planes in relation….armour….trees..plans overlie one another.
Rosemont on pictoral nature of Chinese radicals:
Rosemont suggests that even among the 45,000 phonograms which comprise ninety-percent of the entries in an unabridged Chinese dictionary, many are “meaning indicative” and thus derive meaning from the pictoral quality of the Chinese language. Rosemont uses the ideogram /wu/1, which means “to lie,slander”. If an ancient scribe wanted to make the new word, “wu-to lie” he would begin ideogrammic construction with a radical pictograph, /yen/ denoting speech, then add from the “man” lexical items pronounced /wu/, meaning magician. Because magicians were usually considered fakes in ancient China, “to lie” would be represented as “the words of a magician” yet be classified as phonogrammic, not ideogrammic.
Randall Schroth notes Pound understood ling as being the equivalent of his own concept of the forma mentis, the fine thing held in the mind from which thoughts, concepts and ideas are precipitated. This is the great sensibility.