Could you, umm, explain what you mean by "too many vowels in stressed
syllables"? What exactly is too many? And why would that make rhyming
difficult? (can you guess why I have trouble rhyming...)
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> Behalf Of John Cowan
> You don't have to go *that* far (*shudder*). To make rhyming fairly
> easy, what you need is to not have too many different vowels in stressed
> syllables. English and French have far too many, which is what makes
> them painful to rhyme. (Old French was much better; so is Spanish.)
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