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eye rhyme

n.
A rhyme consisting of words, such as lint and pint, with similar spellings but different sounds. Also called sight rhyme.
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eye rhyme

n
(Poetry) a rhyme involving words that are similar in spelling but not in sound, such as stone and none
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sight′ rhyme`



n.
similarity in spelling of the ends of words or of lines of verse, as in have, grave. Also called eye rhyme.
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eye rhyme

- A similarity between words in spelling but not pronunciation—like dove and move.
See also related terms for similarity.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.eye rhyme - an imperfect rhyme (e.g., `love' and `move')
rhyme, rime - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
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The eye is not the judge of sound, any more than the nose is the judge of colour." (42) In short, for many people in the second half of the century, eye rhyme was anathema.
But for Swinburne, the eye could be "the judge of sound," just as eye rhyme could be legitimate.
The Ends of Rhyme: Swinburne's A Century of Roundels and Late-Victorian Rhyme Culture
Other types of rhyme include eye rhyme, in which syllables are identical in spelling but are pronounced differently (cough/slough), and pararhyme, first used systematically by the 20th-century poet Wilfred Owen, in which the two syllables have different vowel sounds but identical penultimate and final consonantal groupings (grand/grind).
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The final contribution to this excellent discussion of sound in Hopkins is Hazel Hutchison's "Eye Rhyme: Visual Experience and the Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins," which appeared in the pages of this journal (49, no.
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Hopkins goes on to say that the very notion of eye rhyme is invalid because of the nature of rhyme as a meeting of the like and the unlike: "There are two elements in the beauty rhyme has to the mind, the likeness or sameness of sound and the unlikeness or difference of meaning (Journals, p.
This passage appears to present one of Hopkins's instances of eye rhyme, the reflected correspondence of parts that reveals an underlying unity of nature, which in turn may hint at, but can never fully contain, that which is beyond the material.
Eye rhyme: visual experience and the poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins
So, almost five years later, I have more than doubled the number of eye rhymes that appeared in the May 2005 disquisition and have crystallized the concept of what exactly constitutes an eye rhyme.
A foul ghoul soul loves good blood food
But before we parade our lists, we elucidate our taxonomy by explaining our criteria for what constitutes an genuine, authentic, certified eye rhyme:
A foul ghoul soul loves good blood food
"Eye Rhymes" is a witty collection of 47 short verses, of the humorous genre, that feature English words that look as though they should rhyme but don't, or, contrarily, words which don't look as thought they would rhyme but do.
The Poetry Shelf
They use EYE RHYMES (head/bead), which Richard Lederer has championed in these pages (WW 09-249).
Eye spoonerisms
Other than "eye rhymes" and in poems, rhyme has featured only once in Word Ways, re the-ASH ending (84-69, 148).
Rhyming synonyms 1
eye rhymes sleek leeks & a bone // an egg apples // wallpaper //
Georges Braque (1911)

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