Re: Insane Question

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen scripsit:

> 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...)
I meant "too many *different* vowels that can appear in stressed syllables.
In English there are 12-14, depending on dialect; in Italian, 7; in Spanish, 5.
Closed syllables (ones that end in consonants) also make rhymes more difficult;
English has gobs of these, Italian and Spanish only a few.

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