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by kazinator 1160 days ago
> But you can't fudge the stressed vowel at all.

Sure you can; e.g. you can get away with matching "teacher" with "catcher".

  My good old sixth grade teacher
  Though not always eye to eye
  Introduced me to the Catcher
  You know, In The Rye
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ksenzee 1160 days ago
What I was describing (where the last stressed vowel matches but the rest doesn't all match) is called assonance. This isn't even assonance, much less a rhyme. If you have a source describing this kind of not-a-rhyme from any period of English versification, I'd be interested to see it.
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kazinator 1160 days ago
But in your examples, the last stressed vowel and the unstressed one, both match: reacher, teacher. Therefore I don't follow your comment.

There is a kind of assonance (or whatever) in English where the stressed one can differ. The juxtaposition of such words or endings can sound good. For instance "pitter-patter". This can be exploited to create a near rhyme, like my teacher and catcher verse.

Moreover, if it is the unstressed one that doesn't match, that is no longer the case. We cannot rhyme "teacher" with "teapot" as line endings.

The Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_and_imperfect_rhymes

states the same conditions you have given for perfect rhyme: stressed vowel and following unstressed, if any, are a match. Then it goes into the exceptions.

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