yes, I often start unrhymed and become progressively more rhymed as I
proceed in a poem, as I find this often works, especially to use a rhymed
last couplet in a more loosely rhymed poem.
SallyE
on 10/7/02 10:53 pm, Brigid Anthony at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Interesting comment, Arthur.
> I scan this as mostly iambic, with acceptable variations; excepting L3, and
> to a lesser extent L11 (which also has 9 syllables).
> Much though I admire Heaney, I don't think you can hold him up as a paragon
> when it comes to rhyming best practice.
> Concerning arts/out, the problem for me is, pronounced in RP it's nowhere
> near a rhyme; pronounced in Yorkshire it's almost a homophone, therefore
> not good rhyme.
> As a general rule, I think slant (half) rhymes work OK if you start a poem
> on slants and progress to perfect rhyme; but less well the other way round.
> Sorry, I'm sounding pedantic, so I'll stop.
> Best regards,
> David
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