On Oct 3, 2008, at 1:21 AM, David Tayler wrote: > Having said that, England was famous for its eye rhymes
You mean all over the Continent in 1600, poets were saying "You've got to go to England and try the eye rhymes?" Or do you mean that modern readers/listeners are struck by the number of apparent eye rhymes in older English poetry? > and off > rhymes, the best example is perhaps Dowland's lute song "Come again", > where "die" rhymes with sympathy and misery. > Eye rhymes are when the > word looks like a rhyme but isn't. I think most of those "eye rhymes" were real, as in the love-prove- move example I mentioned earlier. Those rhymes show up so often that it would be downright weird if they weren't real rhymes. See, for example, how many times "eye" rhymes with something that apparently sounds "ee". Chaucer rhymed "eye" with "melody" in the Canterbury Tales around 1390. 500 years later, Blake rhymed "eye" with "symmetry" in The Tyger. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
