Re: Re : Irritating word puzzle.
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 0:31 |
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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Patrick Dunn wrote:
>> 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).
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>Hmm, so perhaps many poems that I thought had no rhyme whatsoever did
>have "half-rhyme". I suppose the important question is: is there anyone
>for whom half-rhymes sound any different than non-rhymes?
Well, that would be me. I've already said I count them as rhymes.
Padraic.