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Re: Another Ozymandias

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 26, 2006, 11:01
On 7/25/06, Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
> Clear as mud I fear. > Did you mean to say your face > was only itching? :)
Heh No, I meant the expression. Blank, like the verse. :)
> Is "slant" rhyme what we're talking about in Ozymandias with the well/tell etc.?
No, no. Slant rhyme is, for my money, non-rhyme pretending to be rhyme. :) Technically, it's final consonance without any corresponding rhyme in the preceding vowel ("mad"/"God", "on"/"soon" in most 'lects, etc). In other words, it's cheating. If you're going to apply constraints to spark creativity, apply some meaningful ones. :) The term is also used to describe the Irish/Welsh pattern we talked about earlier in which the rhyme is in a final unstressed syllable with no match in the stressed one ("bodies"/'"ladies"); I don't find that form quite as objectionable.
> Etonen yllefon > Amendorln mimmeslim nom; > Yry uon fraga. :( :(
... which means? -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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