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Thread #108840 Message #2272503
Posted By: pavane
26-Feb-08 - 02:14 AM
Thread Name: Tech term for unfinished rhyme
Subject: RE: Tech term for unfinished rhyme
SRS, Thank you for your work but "euphemism" and "dysphemism" have nothing to do with rhyming. They relate to word replacement, not the unfinished rhyme, which doesn't HAVE to be a euphemism or have any bawdiness at all, like this one quoted above.
Manners that suited a girl of her charms, A girl that he wanted to take in his Washing and ironing
The method is specific to verse, and I am sure I have seen a term for it, but I just can't remember it.
WYSIWYG The point is that the listener is EXPECTING a rhyme, and usually a particular word, but a different word is substituted, which may actually rhyme in a different way
In the first example I gave, you are expecing a rhyming scheme of abab or abcb but you actually get abcc.
So instead of a rhmye for GLASS, you get one for STATIC