Re: Another Ozymandias

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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