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Was the pronunciation of "symmetry"“symmetry” different in the past?

TheFirst published in Songs of Experience in 1794, the first stanza of the poem The Tyger“The Tyger” by William Blake is:

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

It is easy to guess that in those years that was the way "tiger"tiger used to be written. On

On the other hand, “symmetry”symmetry is not a rhyme for “bright” bright, “night”night, “eye”eye by today’s usual pronunciation. Was

Was it ever a rhyme?

Was the pronunciation of "symmetry" different in the past?

The first stanza of the poem The Tyger by William Blake is

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

It is easy to guess that in those years that was the way "tiger" used to be written. On the other hand, “symmetry” is not a rhyme for “bright”, “night”, “eye” by today’s usual pronunciation. Was it ever a rhyme?

Was the pronunciation of “symmetry” different in the past?

First published in Songs of Experience in 1794, the first stanza of the poem “The Tyger” by William Blake is:

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

It is easy to guess that in those years that was the way tiger used to be written.

On the other hand, symmetry is not a rhyme for bright, night, eye by today’s usual pronunciation.

Was it ever a rhyme?

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Was the pronunciation of "symmetry" different in the past?

The first stanza of the poem The Tyger by William Blake is

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

It is easy to guess that in those years that was the way "tiger" used to be written. On the other hand, “symmetry” is not a rhyme for “bright”, “night”, “eye” by today’s usual pronunciation. Was it ever a rhyme?