Re: Re : Irritating word puzzle.

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.
These days, yes, many poets use half rhyme, particularly in free verse,
which doesn't have set rhyme schemes (but does, frequently, rhyme,
alliterate, assonate, and everything else).  I do quite frequently, for
example; in some poems, when I want a more subtle effect, I prefer it to
full rhyme, in fact.  (Now, my sentence structure is another matter.  Oy)