10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MASCULINE RHYME»
Discover the use of
masculine rhyme in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
masculine rhyme and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
Three rhymes are recognized by purists as "true rhymes": masculine rhyme, in
which the two words end with the same vowel-consonant combination (stand/
land); feminine rhyme (sometimes called double rhyme), in which two syllables
rhyme ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1995
... syllable, we call this MASCULINE rhyme. Examples: 'sweet repeat', or 'strong
long' (as in the Shakespeare sonnet we looked at) or 'perhaps laps' in lines 15
and 16 of Robert Browning's poem 'My Last Duchess'. But when stressed
syllables ...
... feminine rhyme, which are all longer, either by a syllable in the traditional
manner or by a postvocalic consonant in present-day pronunciation, whereas the
shorter lines, those with a masculine rhyme, end in all six cases with a singular
noun ...
Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy, 1987
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Japanese Haiku: Its Essential Nature and History
35 We have been discussing the masculine rhyme, ending on a stressed syllable
. The impact of the accented rhyme givesa sense of concreteness andisthe
strongest emphasisobtainable through sound elements in poetry. So the use of ...
Masculine rhyme occurs when multiple syllables at the ends of words are rhymed
, such as “toaster” and “roaster,” or “pigeon” and “religion.” Feminine rhyme, by
contrast, occurs when only the last syllable shared bywords is rhymed, such as ...
When the final words that form the rhyme pair are one syllable each, that is
termed Masculine Rhyme, for example, “dare” and “chair” It is also masculine
rhyme when either or both of the rhyming words have two or more syllables, with
the ...
Ottone M. Riccio, Ellen Beth Siegel, 2009
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The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the ...
Lastly, even the very rhyme itself the Italian cannot put in the last syllable, by the
French named the masculine rhyme, but still in the next to the last, which the
French call the female, or the next before that, which the Italians term sdrucaola.
Anne M. Haselkorn, Betty Travitsky, 1990
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Pushkin’s Rhyming: A Comparative Study
... terminal -x all closed masculine rhymes with Class 3 contrast in one consonant
(not cluster) closed masculine rhyme pairs with Class 3 consonant contrasts in
consonant clusters of the same size closed masculine rhyme pairs in which there
...
A feminine rhyme cannot follow a different feminine rhyme and a masculine
rhyme cannot follow a different masculine rhyme. Masculine and feminine
rhymes must alternate. If these rules were to be applied to English "there" and "
fair" would ...
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Righting Wrongs in Writing Songs
When a rhyme involves more than one syllable in each word, and the last
syllable is unstressed, it is known as feminine. ForGET regRET forms a
masculine rhyme because the stress that carries the rhyme is the last in each
word. The Way It ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MASCULINE RHYME»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
masculine rhyme is used in the context of the following news items.
Les Murray finds brevity in poetry anthology Waiting for the Past
... (a jerky-like cured meat from southern Africa) as a masculine rhyme for “wobbegong”, the indigenously named, “shaggy-bearded” Australian ... «The Australian, May 15»
Karachi Literature Festival: It's Easy to find Vikram Seth suitable
In the middle of a detailed explanation of his work on librettos and libretti, masculine rhyme schemes and syllables, the writer stopped to say:. «The Express Tribune, Feb 12»
