This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...home...come, one...alone, blood... good, heaven...even, clamber...chamber, death...sheath, have... save, urn...mourn, God...abroad, Christ...mist, earth...forth, etc. Such rhymes are quite common in the best modern English poets, and are therefore legitimate. Many of them are called specially Eye-Rhymes, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...home...come, one...alone, blood... good, heaven...even, clamber...chamber, death...sheath, have... save, urn...mourn, God...abroad, Christ...mist, earth...forth, etc. Such rhymes are quite common in the best modern English poets, and are therefore legitimate. Many of them are called specially Eye-Rhymes, because the sameness of the spelling helps to reconcile them to the ear. (3.) Rhymes in which the vowel-sounds differ decidedly, and there is also a difference of accent: e.g. die...sympathy, eyes...mysteries, Christ...Evengelist. The accepted rhymes of this sort are comparatively few, and some of them are Eye-Rhymes. (4.) Rhymes in which, the vowel-sounds either agreeing somewhat or differing essentially, the succeeding consonants yet differ: e.g. his...bliss, peace...these, house...vows, else... tells, vase...grace, breath...wreathe, pass...was, face...gaze, etc. Milton has, of course, his full proportion of Perfect Rhymes, chiefly monosyllabic, but occasionally dissyllabic. Equally of course, no sanction of the hideous modern Cockney rhymes, as claiming to belong to this class, will be found in him. Of " identical rhymes" he is not so innocent, though one can see that, despite the example of Chaucer, Spenser, and the Italian poets generally, he did not like them. In Psalm LXXX. 21-23 he makes "tears" rhyme to itself; in Psalm LXXXVI. 26-28 he makes "works" rhyme to itself; in Vac. Ex. 89, 90, he makes "not" rhyme with "knot"; in Sonnet IX. he makes the proper name "Ruth" rhyme with "ruth," the abstract noun; in Psalm II. 20-22 he makes "averse" rhyme with "converse"; in Psalm VII. 32-35 he makes "righteousness" rhyme with "wickedness"; in Psalm LXXX. he makes "vouchsafe" rhyme several times with "safe"; and search may detect some more latent...
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