On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Padraic Brown wrote:
>> Thus, hat rhymes with cat; quit half rhymes and rutabega not at all.
>
>Hmm, never heard of a "half-rhyme". Do many poets use that? To me,
>"quit" and "hat" have no connection whatsoever, while "hat" and "cat"
>somehow click.
I hear it with some frequency in popular music. I don't know if any
poets use it or not; though it would make for an interesting technique
to use it perhaps near the end of a stanza the way you get a bad chord
before the resolution at the end of a section of music.
Padraic.