Timeline for Can English have words that are both alliterations and also rhyme?
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| Jan 28, 2018 at 23:51 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | To risk diluting a perfectly serviceable answer with academic diversions, I wonder if it isn’t worth mentioning the types of rhyme we call assonant rhyme (only stressed vowels count), and the doubled alliterative assonance from Germanic verse that figures so prominently in Shakespeare’s Macbeth alone of all his works? “My way of life / Is fallen in the sere, the yellow leaf” and also “why do you start, and seem to fear / Things that do sound so fair?” The Middle English epic poem we’ve come to call Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is filled with such devices. | |
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| Jan 28, 2018 at 23:33 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | On page 50 of The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, by JRR Tolkien (2009, posthumous), his son and editor Christopher summarizes his father’s many lecture notes on the subject of Germanic alliteration this way: “It is important to recognize that in Germanic verse ‘alliteration’ refers, not to letters, but to sounds; it is the agreement of the stressed elements beginning with the same consonant, or with no consonant: all vowels ‘alliterate’ witth one another, [...] The consonant-combinations sk, sp, and st will usually only alliterate with themselves; [...]” | |
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| Jan 28, 2018 at 22:38 | history | answered | herisson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |