half-rhyme

She got nothing, for instance, out of the juxtaposition of "roaming" and "Romeo" in the verse of Irving Berlin's "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," a neat half-rhyme on which Fred Astaire for whom Berlin wrote the song never failed to put the sliest of spins.

March 2006 2006

She got nothing, for instance, out of the juxtaposition of "roaming" and "Romeo" in the verse of Irving Berlin's "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," a neat half-rhyme on which Fred Astaire for whom Berlin wrote the song never failed to put the sliest of spins.

It Ain't (Always) That Serious 2006

The purpose of the half-rhyme is to draw subtle connections between two proximal words in a poem, to construct invisible mental bridges across the border of our conscious perception.

justinker Diary Entry justinker 2005

rhyme? half-rhyme? assonance? consonance? onomatopoeia?

Archive 2008-09-01 Bruce Schauble 2008

rhyme? half-rhyme? assonance? consonance? onomatopoeia?

Intricacies, Frictions, Evasions Bruce Schauble 2008

half-rhyme, internal rhyme, broken rhyme, leonine rhyme, chain rhyme, random rhyme and vowels echoing intimately from inside one line across to the next.

Archive 2006-08-01 Rus Bowden 2006

half-rhyme, internal rhyme, broken rhyme, leonine rhyme, chain rhyme, random rhyme and vowels echoing intimately from inside one line across to the next.

August 29th Poetic Ticker Clicking Rus Bowden 2006