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Re: Insane Question

From:Sarah Marie Parker-Allen <lloannna@...>
Date:Monday, January 27, 2003, 14:10
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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> -----Original Message----- > 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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