Slapdash rhyme4/29/2023 ![]() … For examples of n.r., see Hopkins, Yeats, Ransom, Eliot, Owen, Tate, Wylie, and Auden. poets, not to supplant perfect rhyme but to supplement it, so as to provide a greater range and freedom for the poet. is now acepted and used by nearly all 20th-c. … Once considered an oddity in the work of such poets as Emerson and Emily Dickinson, n.r. ![]() Both internally and at line ends such inexact echoes can be found occasionally in all poetry, especially in ballad, folk, and popular song. first by Vaughan, who was influenced by Welsh practices. appears to have been deliberately used in Eng. (1974 ed.) only takes imperfect rhyme seriously when real poets begin using it:Īn old device in Icelandic, Ir., and Welsh verse, n.r. Goldsmith) in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. ![]() It sounds more ethnic if it ain’t good EnglishĪnd it don’t even gotta rhyme… excuse me: rhyne!Īnd right there we have the half-rhyme line / rhyme - as good as it gets, the matching of /m/ and /n/ being the most common segmental half-rhyme in English. Tom Lehrer’s comic song “We Are the Folk Song Army” both mocks the attitude and propagates it:Īnd it don’t matter if you put a couple extra syllables into a line The critical and analytical literature on poetry concerns itself with poetry as an art form - serious poetry, art poetry, high poetry, whatever - as opposed to popular poetry, vernacular poetry, folk poetry, and so on, these latter taken to be inferior as art, ill-organized and slapdash, etc. This is the first part, on 5 papers of mine.īackground: the patrician tradition. I’ve been assembling a bibliography of my papers on rock rhyme, half rhyme / half-rhyme, imperfect rhyme etc.
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