Talk:Half rhyme

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I don't understand that Yates example at all. Can someone highlight the half-rhymes in bold?

I've tried to make it a little clearer. Stumps 04:46, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eye Rhyme?

Half rhyme, sometimes called slant, sprung or near rhyme, and less commonly eye rhyme (a term covering a broader phenomenon), is consonance on the final consonants of the words involved.

This mention of "eye rhyme" in the definition strikes me as potentially confusing, since it seems to imply that some people use the term "eye rhyme" as a synonym of "half rhyme". Also, to call eye rhyme a "broader phenomenon" could suggest that "half rhyme" is a subset of "eye rhyme". But "eye rhyme" is defined in its own entry as "a similarity in spelling between words that are pronounced differently", i.e. a completely different phenomenon. The fact that some words is English count as both eye rhymes and half rhymes (e.g. fiend : friend) is a coincidence, an accident of the history of the English language spoken and written, rather than anything inherent in the relationship between the two phenomena. --Dependent Variable, 17 July 2007.

One of the other terms is "Allowable Rhyme"Saxophobia (talk) 16:11, 16 April 2008 (UTC)