Rhyme

Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast,
Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone,
Shaking her wings, devouring all in haste,
Till either gorge be stuffed or prey be gone –
Even so she kissed his brow, his cheek, his chin,
And where she ends she doth anew begin.

‘For know, my heart stands armed in mine ear,
And will not let a false sound enter there, (Do they rhyme because of the pronunciation of the -ar in ear and the -re in there?)
...
Resembling well his pale cheeks and the blood
Which in round drops upon their whiteness stood.


We can conclude that in English fast and haste rhyme and so do bone and gone, ear and there, and blood and stood, can't we? (Or are there any changes in pronunciation while we read the poems?)

Thank you very much in advance.

joham said:

Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast,
Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone,
Shaking her wings, devouring all in haste,
Till either gorge be stuffed or prey be gone –
Even so she kissed his brow, his cheek, his chin,
And where she ends she doth anew begin.

‘For know, my heart stands armed in mine ear,
And will not let a false sound enter there, (Do they rhyme because of the pronunciation of the -ar in ear and the -re in there?)
...

We can conclude that in English fast and haste rhyme and so do bone and gone, and ear and there, can't we? (Or are there any changes in pronunciation while we read the poem?)

Thank you very much in advance.

Click to expand...

We can conclude that in 1592, they could have rhymed. This was *punching some numbers into the calculator* a long time ago.

freezeframe said:

We can conclude that in 1592, they could have rhymed. This was *punching some numbers into the calculator* a long time ago.

Click to expand...

Thank you very much, freezeframe. Could you please tell me what punching some numbers into the calculator here means?

And this way of 'rhyme' is still be used by contemporary poets, isn't it?

Thank you again.

joham said:

Thank you very much, freezeframe. Could you please tell me what punching some numbers into the calculator here means?

And this way of 'rhyme' is still be used by contemporary poets, isn't it?

Thank you again.

Click to expand...

What way of rhyme? I assume it rhymes because English was pronounced differently over 400 years ago. Today, poets rhyme words according to how they're pronounced today.

It was a joke about calculating how long ago 1592 was. :-D

And this way of 'rhyme' is still be used by contemporary poets, isn't it?

Click to expand...

Don't expect contemporary poets to conform to any sort of rhyming convention - if they use rhyme at all.


They

call this

sort

of thing



poetry.


Rover

Rover_KE said:

Don't expect contemporary poets to conform to any sort of rhyming convention - if they use rhyme at all.


They

call this

sort

of thing



poetry.


Rover

Click to expand...

Some contemporary poetry rhymes, some doesn't. Free verse is not a recent invention (relatively speaking).