WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS KIND OF RHYME?
Is there a name for this kind of rhyme? I think there must be, but I don't know what it is: cause/case, road/red, barn/burn, soap/sap, etc. (i.e., it is the initial and final constant sounds that...
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...offish? Actually, I like offish rhyme striking here and there.
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Yeah, I do too. Rick, are you tellling me that's the name of it, or asking me? I'm just trying to cover all possible questions that might come up in the Saturday classes--and of course I won't. There...
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I've seen it called consonance (as opposed to assonance where the vowels match but the consonant don't). Extended technical discussion at http://www.volecentral.co.uk/vf/rhyme.htm (one of my favorite...
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I'd call it consonance rhyme. A friend of devised a sonnet scheme where each quatrain progressed by assonance then consonance then rhyme. Then the three quatrains were linked by the same progression,...
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Thanks. I'm not going to get into it Saturday if I don't have to, but we'll see. I'm being given two sessions of 50 minutes each in which to teach what it has taken me 70 years to learn. Of course,...
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Looking back into Clement Wood's introduction to his Rhyming Dictionary & Poet's Craft Book (1936,) he gives equal sections to Assonance & Consonance. Here's what he says of the latter:...
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Thanks, everyone. I guess these are a form of slant rhyme. They stood out to me (in whose poem, I forget) because both the beginning and ending consonant sounds of the words seemed to be alike:...
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