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Unread 07-02-2018, 04:11 PM
Jim Moonan Jim Moonan is offline
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It sounds possible...

Discussions such as these provoke a kind of delusional feeling for me : ) Could it be……? I often hear rhymes where there are none.

Intriguing as this is, it is hard for me to make that stretch that rhyme has the innate ability to be conceptual and still conform to even the outer reaches of the definition of rhyme.
But there is something in my gut that says it can. Words and their meanings can be downright bewildering in their capacity to make the mind see/hear rhyme in different ways. It's really hard for me to wrap my brain around it… Is it possible that many poets produce conceptual rhymes without knowing it? --And readers hear conceptual rhymes without knowing it?

If there is “conceptual” rhyme is there also “conceptual” alliteration? “Conceptual” assonance, consonance, rhythm, etc.? Some would say hogwash. I can’t figure it out. If there is (and there might be, lurking throughout the body known as poetry), then let it be.

I liked the thread Ralph referred to in his #7 post. There's something there.
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