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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Jan 28 2009
Rhymes with...
I was always puzzled by poetry and songs in which words at the end of a line had similar spelling, but were pronounced differently:
rough
bough
through
cough
dough
I suppose those are poetic and they make a great visual game, but they're not true rhymes.
The other puzzling combination involves words that are very close in pronunciation, but don't actually rhyme:
heart
lark
some
run
In these case the auditory effect is poetic, but still not a true rhyme. It's more like a demonstration of nerve deafness.
Quite often the rest of the particular piece of writing is rhymed in traditional fashion, which makes these anomalies seem even more odd. This all came up because I needed to speak of "more velour" today and the similar, but not exact, sound of the two words made me start trying to make them sound enough alike to be a true rhyme. It only works if you manipulate your accent to something between Indian and Irish. But then, accents are another whole problem.
posted at: 11:50 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
I was always puzzled by poetry and songs in which words at the end of a line had similar spelling, but were pronounced differently:
rough
bough
through
cough
dough
I suppose those are poetic and they make a great visual game, but they're not true rhymes.
The other puzzling combination involves words that are very close in pronunciation, but don't actually rhyme:
heart
lark
some
run
In these case the auditory effect is poetic, but still not a true rhyme. It's more like a demonstration of nerve deafness.
Quite often the rest of the particular piece of writing is rhymed in traditional fashion, which makes these anomalies seem even more odd. This all came up because I needed to speak of "more velour" today and the similar, but not exact, sound of the two words made me start trying to make them sound enough alike to be a true rhyme. It only works if you manipulate your accent to something between Indian and Irish. But then, accents are another whole problem.
posted at: 11:50 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
