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by vineyardmike
1183 days ago
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> You appear to be operating under the impression that the every syllable of a rhyming couplet has to rhyme exactly for it to be considered a rhyme I'm not operating under that impression, but the author is [1]. To me, the final "sounds" should match - not every syllable, an end rhyme according to wiki [0]. Specifically I would consider a rhyme to require matching sounds "at least from last vowel to end", but I don't think of rhymes first from the strict definition. Perhaps it's an accent thing but "-us" in cactus is not the same sound as "-ice" in practice. If a child made a poem with these sounds I would tell them "good job, it's a rhyme", and perhaps for the purpose of a silly word game too. But I would not use it as a passing case for a test of any sort like the author. What's more pleasing is irrelevant, what is relevant is if its a true rhyme. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/end_rhyme#English [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=35258385&goto=item%3Fi... |
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Indeed, it's an accent thing. In America at least, pronouncing "cactus" with an "is" or an "us" sound are both valid.
I think that given that the author provided a working definition, and your provided failure example is actually passing that definition (just only for the author's dialect), and given that you are now essentially trying to change the subject to "my definition of rhyme is the correct one"; well, you're just being...pedantic? argumentative? I'm not sure.