Re: Re : Irritating word puzzle.

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Charles wrote:

> >From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote:
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> > Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 22/10/99 23:04:09  , Padraic a =E9crit :
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> > >  Gryingly yours,
> > >  Padraic.
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> Cool answer, using spoken rather than written language.
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> Another is: if you are a poet, how will you rhyme "month"?
> (From John Barth, "The Sot-Weed Factor".)
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> Another bad one is "orange". We solved that one in
> alt.silly.little.newsgroup but I forget the answer.
I am a poet.  I can't think of a rhyme for month, but a half-rhyme for
orange is "door hinge."  I can't imagine a poem to use that in, though. =20

Actually, the problem becomes easier if you realize there are more than
one type of rhyme.  Most people consider clang rhyme, or full rhyme, the
only "real" rhyme.  But there is also assonance (in which vowels rhyme
"hate the trail that leads us to evil."  hate and trail, leads and evil
have vowel rhyme); consonance (in which consonants rhyme, like "month" and
"tenth", also called "half rhyme" particularly when it occurs at the end
of a word); alliteration (rhyme of the first letters instead of the last,
as in "devil dog, dip your sticky stone"); and others that are simply too
obscure to consider.  So there're an infinite number of rhymes for orange
and month, as long as one is willing to give up the idea of clang rhyme
being "real rhyme." =20

Just thought I'd share.  Go on, ask me about meter, I dare ya!  :)

--Pat