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Unread 08-06-2018, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Brian Allgar View Post
The poor French must be easily satisfied, then. What they call 'rime riche' is what we would disparage as 'identity rhymes'.
To be fair, there are a few extra rules thrown in. In prior centuries, French identity rhymes were not allowed to be the same part of speech, because that was deemed too lazy. So poets could identity-rhyme a verb with a noun, or a verb with an adjective, but not two verbs with each other.

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