Re: Rhyming Conlangs

Irina Rempt-Drijfhout scripsit:

> > "syncopation" and "alien nation"? And is "syncopation"/"oration" or
> > "syncopation/occupation" considered a better rhyme?
>
> Yes, I consider that a better rhyme in English, but it's probably a
> matter of taste. (I'd probably hear 'alien nation' as 'alienation' in
> the first case)
"Syncopation/occupation" is technically known as "rich rhyme", and is
traditionally considered a fault, if unintentional, or a special effect,
if intentional.  The same is true of rhyming words that are in fact
the same, called "identic rhyme": Spenser rhymes "meet" (the verb)
and "meet" (the archaic adjective, "appropriate") at one point in
the _Faierie Queene_.

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