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Unread 09-27-2013, 04:04 PM
Brian Allgar Brian Allgar is offline
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Originally Posted by Roger Slater View Post
But seraphically and graphically are a perfect rhyme, Brian. The final stress of one begins with "r" and the final stress of the other is kicked off with a "gr" -- I think those are considered distinct, and they certainly are distinct to my ear. (Cf. perfect rhymes like kill/skill, tall/stall).
Of course they are, Roger. The problem is that in the first line, 'dogmatically' is not a perfect rhyme for the other two words, and I don't think any of Chris's ingenious neologisms, nor John's suggestion, could be used to replace it.
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