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'''Eye rhyme,''' also called '''visual rhyme''' and '''sight rhyme,''' is a similarity in spelling between words that are pronounced differently and hence, not an auditory rhyme. An example is the pair ''slaughter'' and ''laughter''. |
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Many older English poems, particularly those written in [[Middle English]] or written in [[The Renaissance]], contain rhymes that were originally true or full rhymes, but as read by modern readers they are now eye rhymes because of [[Great Vowel Shift|shifts in pronunciation]]. An example is ''prove'' and ''love''. |
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'''Other eye rhymes: |
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* height : weight |
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* sew : blew, hew, new, crew, dew, few |
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* come : home |
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* brow, now, how, plow, wow, vow : sow, crow, mow, row, slow, show, below, know |
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* tomb, womb : comb |
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* said : laid, paid, raid, maid |
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* breast : feast, yeast, beast |
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* read : dead (however, in the past tense ''read'' does rhyme with ''dead'') |
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* their : weir |
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* do : so |
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* dough, though, borough, thorough : rough, tough, enough : through : cough |
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* rouge : gouge |
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* fiend : friend |
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* wind, rescind : bind, find, grind, kind |
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* daughter : laughter |
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* tone, bone, phone, alone, hone : gone : one, done |
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* fruit : biscuit |
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* hubris : debris |
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* derange : orange |
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* threat : wheat, peat, teat, beat |
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* rugged : drugged |
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* love, glove : move, prove : grove, drove |
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* rain : again |
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* good : blood : food, mood, brood |
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* protein : vein |
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* lemon : demon |
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* stranger : anger |
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* ginger : finger, singer |
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* put : nut |
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* bread, lead (metal) : bead, lead (verb) |
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* roll, troll : moll, doll, poll |
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* wound (noun) : found, pound, ground, round, sound, around, bound, mound, abound |
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* game, name, shame, blame, dame : sesame |
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[[Category:Linguistics]] |
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[[nl:Oogrijm]] |
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[[ja:視覚韻]] |
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