<<This poem also has some of those slant verse elements I mention. Of course, there is no way to tell if "phelgm" and "dream" were not pronounced more closely then than now.>>
I've had the same trouble with "lunger," "lougie," "looey," and "Louis."
<<In another poem Vaughan rimes "sickle" and "people.">>
Good for him. Aside from my prejudice against feminine rimes, I like these. As a precedent, we can rime people/pickle or pickle/pimple. Pimple/simple? Of course. But how about trickle/umbilical? I think I've so far failed to wholey grasp slant rime, although I depend on what I feel it is. Each time I've posted something I think is a nice, rolling slant rhyme, Carol Taylor has roasted me.
Bob
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