Time For a Rhyme?
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Sep 7, 2023
I had a poem accepted in “another place” a few days ago that excited a comment that greatly interested me, and which I hope someone on the “Cuppa” might be able to clarify for me.
The poem in question, most of which I remembered from having composed it 48 years ago, uses rhymes throughout — five stanzas with an AABBA rhyme pattern. I stuck pretty rigidly to exact rhymes (one exception — “gremlins” with “penguins”!), which is why the comment struck me as odd.
This was because I was “daring” to rhyme “four” with “draw.”
I don’t see a problem here — this is a perfect rhyme, with not the slightest hint of a half-rhyme.
This suggests that Americans might pronounce one of these words differently from Brits — is this the case?
