A Spherian once told me that the words mouses and houses don’t rhyme, because one has an S sound (mouses) and the other a Z sound (houzes). But I see poets do that quite often. And even though haggis and ages are, supposedly, a slant rhyme, the G in haggis is not the same as the J in ages. So is it really a true slant rhyme or an eye slant rhyme (because they both end with an S, but the latter is actually pronounced like a Z)?
Last edited by Martin Elster; 02-26-2019 at 02:39 PM.
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