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MUSCOVITE Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Perfect rhymes?

Hi,

Ex #1: (R.Burns)

Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Ex #2: (Father Goose rhymes)


He analysed it and, by gum,
It proved to be petroleum

(1) How do you call this (very unusual to English learners like me) form of rhyming? "Spelling rhyming"?

(2) I wonder if the rhyming pairs "love" --- "rove" and "love" --- "dove" are equally perfect to a native English speaker's ear?

(3) I wonder if this phenomenon ("spelling rhyming") also exists in other European languages?

thank you in advance!

mus-te
  

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(1) What do you call this...? Wikipedia calls it eye rhyming or sight rhyming, though I'd never heard that before I looked it up just now. org/wiki/Eye_rhyme Though not strictly rhymes, eye rhymes or sight rhymes refer to similarity in spelling but not in sound, as with cough , bough , or love , move .

— Rover_KE

  • (1) What do you call this...?
  • Wikipedia calls it eye rhyming or sight rhyming, though I'd never heard that before I looked it up just now.
  • org/wiki/Eye_rhyme Though not strictly rhymes, eye rhymes or sight rhymes refer to similarity in spelling but not in sound, as with cough , bough , or love , move .
  • Some early written poetry appears to contain these, but in many cases the words used rhymed at the time of writing, and subsequent changes in pronunciation have meant that the rhyme is now lost.
  • (2) 'Love/rove' are not perfect rhymes; 'love/dove' are.
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(1) What do you call this...? Wikipedia calls it eye rhyming or sight rhyming, though I'd never heard that before I looked it up just now.
Eye rhyme
Main article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_rhyme

Though not strictly rhymes, eye rhymes or sight
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