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Why are identical rhymes inferior in English poetry?
From “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath:
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
In English poetry, a perfect rhyme has identical vowels but different onsets, like come ...
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How does one find a word with a rhyming middle syllable?
In conversation today I wanted to find a set of words that have an "or" sound in their middles, as in "torrent" and "sorcerer".
I couldn't find one. Most rhyming dictionaries I found only concerned ...
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Rhymes like “feed the man meat” or “butter is better”? [duplicate]
Are "feed the man meat" and "butter is better" both assonance or both consonance, or are they different in this respect?
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Word meaning “narrow minded person” that ends in “an” if such exists [closed]
I'm looking for a word which is opposite or similar to Cosmopolitan and also ends in "an".
I'm trying to title something opposite or related to Cosmopolitan the magazine which sounds similar. So the ...
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Is there any rhyming word for the word 'month'? [closed]
I searched but I found that the word 'month' I am looking for, has no perfectly rhyming word. Is it true? Can anyone suggest rhyming words for this word?
I also have certain words like 'millionth'. ...
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What do you call a poem or song that sets up a rhyme and then ignores it?
Here is a line from the song "Popular" in the musical Wicked. I am trying to explain what we call the anticlimax of the last three lines, where a rhyme is expected but not delivered.
When I see ...
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Why don’t we write poetry like Beowulf any longer?
Beowulf, the Old English epic poem, uses a characteristically Germanic style of poetry in which the number of strong beats per line is what counts. Instead of counting syllables, strong beats alone ...
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Why is this considered a “romantic” poem? [closed]
In Willam Blake's poem, what makes it a romantic poem?
I wandered through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
A mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, ...
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Do “hull” and “full” rhyme?— rules for “short U” sounds before L
I grew up speaking a variety of American English that merges the "short U" sounds before L. The "short U" sounds are the vowels in the words STRUT and FOOT. For me, before an L sound, all words have ...
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“Yes marry have I” usage
I was looking through the original text of a popular nursery rhyme “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book when noticed an expression whose meaning I can’t understand: “Yes, marry, ...
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Rhyme in Elizabethan sonnets
In sonnets from the Elizabethan period, "move" rhymed with "love" although they don't today. Recognizing that changes in spelling rarely keep up with changes in pronunciation, how were "move" and ...
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What is the word for obtaining a rhyme by mispronouncing a word using a regional dialect?
Take the lyrics:
... Now he lives in the islands
Fishing the pilin's (instead of pilings) ...
Is there a word that means to alter the pronunciation to achieve a rhyme (in song)?
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Term for phrases that almost rhyme but are orally rhythmic
When thinking of short slogans or sayings there is great value in having something that is fun to say and has good shape, but not necessarily directly rhyming. If the rhyme is too literal, it tends to ...
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History of pronunciation of “moiety”
Wiktionary shows the pronunciation of moiety as /ˈmɔɪ.ə.ti/, which I think agrees with the audio versions at merriam-webster.com and howjsay.com. (Be warned that both those links produce audio when ...
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What is a “sounds like” thesaurus called?
A dictionary contains word definitions.
A thesaurus contains words that mean the same (synonyms).
I'm looking for a name for a word dictionary that will give you rhymes (or "sounds like") of a word.
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Is rhyming of two words a transitive property?
Let's suppose A rhymes with B and B rhymes with C. Does A always rhyme with C?
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Is there a name for words following this pattern?
Word pairs like bizarre and bazaar, although spelled differently sound very similar. It also seems like they are more than just a pair of rhyming words.
Is there a classification within rhyming ...
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Does a word rhyme with itself?
In other words, does rhyming work reflexively?
Do "potato" and "potato" rhyme?
Is the following (admittedly cumbersome) limerick valid?
An issue with rhymes confused me much So I used the ...
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What is it about English that makes it favourable for writing limericks?
I was reading some limericks and I thought about composing them, and I find it very easy to come up with lines that fit the metre.
Is there something about the English language that makes it easy to ...
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Older pronunciations of the “-ity” suffix [duplicate]
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Rhyming conventions of Early Modern English
Andrew Marvell's poem To His Coy Mistress from the mid-1600's follows an AABBCCDD[...] rhyming pattern. Therefore, it is ...
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Does Old Mother Hubbard rhyme?
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard,
To give the poor dog a bone:
When she came there, the cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.
It's always bothered me that "bone" doesn't rhyme ...
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Meaning of the counting rhyme “Eenie Meenie Miney Moe”
Counting rhymes are as we know, used for determining who is it.So last week, we were playing chili-chili-water, and my friend told me that the counting rhynme "Eenie Meenie Miney Moe" actually had a ...
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In what dialects does “often” rhyme with “soften”?
I believe in most English dialects soften is pronounced without a t sound. In some dialects, often is similar, but in others a t sound is quite evident in often.
I'm interested not only in which ...
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Is it true that iambic pentameter is “natural” to English? If so, why?
When I first read Dante's Divine Comedy in high school, I remember once being puzzled at what I thought were strained rhymes in the translation, and mentioned it to my English teacher. In reply, she ...
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What is a word for words that rhyme or sound similar?
You may say "node rhymes with toad", or "the words load and toad rhyme", but what about the relation of rhyming?
The relation between "node" and "load" is purely ____ - they just sound similar.
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Online rhyme dictionary/rhyming resource that lists rhymes by vowel sound (assonance)
Anyone know of an online rhyming dictionary or rhyme resource that lists rhymes by vowel sound (assonance)? RhymeZone.com doesn't have such an option.
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What word is complimentary, but sounds like “chunky”?
For a discussion I'm having with a colleague, we're trying to think of complimentary words that sound ugly.
Any that rhyme with chunky (or anything else for that matter).
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Rhyming conventions of Early Modern English
I was reading the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell when something struck me as odd. Let me quote two passages:
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
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Why does “orange” rhyme with (almost) nothing in English?
Joel Spolsky asked what rhymes with orange. The official answer is, "Nothing," although a creative poet can get close by using half words, just the -nge part or resorting to place names and foreign ...
