er

It depends on the poet.

Mister MicawberIt depends on the poet.

Let's say it's a British poet.

No, I mean individual poets. Some are willing to mix feminine with masculine rhymes, and others are not:

And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick,Was beat with fist, instead of a stick(Samuel Butler)

Mister MicawberNo, I mean individual poets. Some are willing to mix feminine with masculine rhymes, and others are not:


And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick,
Was beat with fist, instead of a stick(Samuel Butler)





Hmm. Moving away from Poetics, do those "words" ryhme in your variant?

And pulpit, drum ecclesiástic,

Was beat with fist, instead of á stick

The rhyme requires a dislocation of the rhythm (i.e. a stress on "a" in the second line); which is not uncommon in humorous disyllabic or trisyllabic rhymes. (Cf. Byron's Don Juan.)

On reflection, I would call it a close but not exact rhyme. I'm not sure how Butler

<Southern English "er" would not rhyme with Scottish "cur".>

But would Southern English "er" rhyme with Southern English "cur"?

I don't think my "er" rhymes with my "cur"; the vowel in the former seems to be glottal.

MrP