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10-24-2008, 05:18 AM
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I'm working on a couple of poems using eye rhymes and need a greater selection of them to work from than Google seems able to provide. Anyone know where I can find a comprehensive list?
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10-24-2008, 08:32 AM
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I can't find a comprehensive list either, and I somehow doubt there is one. But there are several good examples in This Wikipedia Article which you have probably seen already. Personally, I like ear rhymes when eye rhyme, though I am working on developing a nose rhyme (words that don't actually rhyme but smell very similar).
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10-24-2008, 08:46 AM
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Hey Roger, what a coincidence, I'm working on touch rhymes,
words that look the same but feel different, the real interesting ones are touchy-touchy rhymes for sensitive poetry. I'm also thinking about look-but-don't-touch rhymes which I could use in poems dedicated to old girl friends.
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10-24-2008, 09:36 AM
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I think I can guess why neither of you is working on "taste" rhymes, but it wouldn't be nice to say...
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10-24-2008, 10:16 AM
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There you go -- taste/caste is a fine eye rhyme and maybe even a good tongue rhyme.
(That last sentence has other potential eye rhymes as well, such as there/here and go/to and fine/'zine and a/bra and even/seven).
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10-24-2008, 12:33 PM
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Some time ago I posted a poem which rhymed AABB as regards eye-rhymes and ABAB as regards ear-rhymes. Here are the first two stanzas:
One day the ailing Farmer Ron
Addressed his eldest sailor son:
“My boy, when I am dead and gone,
When my life’s work is fully done,
And I have flitted over there,
Then you’ll be left to cope down here.
It’s something you will have to bear
So wipe away that foolish tear.
I managed to keep it up for ten stanzas before it petered out; I sometimes use it with my students, just to give them the final depressing proof that English spelling and pronunciation are only very loosely connected.
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11-10-2008, 02:24 AM
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Thanks so much for this, Seree, the Heteronym Homepage is just the ticket. I would never have thought of 'sake/sake'!
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11-10-2008, 07:51 AM
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Don't forget all the -ough eye-rhymes.
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11-10-2008, 11:27 AM
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Not sure if this kids' poem of mine uses eye rhymes or not, but it seems sort of related among rhyming anomolies:
NUMB NUMBERS
I awoke from my slumber
one morning last summer
and wondered why number
is spelled just like number.
In one word the b
is virtually roared.
In one word the b
is simply ignored.
It's hard to imagine
anything dumber.
If a number were numb
could another be number?
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