Eye rhyme

Eye rhyme

Eye rhyme, also called visual rhyme and sight rhyme, is a similarity in spelling between words that are pronounced differently and hence, not an auditory rhyme. An example is the pair slaughter and laughter.

Many older English poems, particularly those written in Middle English or written in The Renaissance, contain rhymes that were originally true or full rhymes, but as read by modern readers they are now eye rhymes because of shifts in pronunciation. An example is prove and love.

"'Other eye rhymes:
* height : weight

* sew : blew, hew, new, crew, dew, few,

* brow, now, how, plow, wow : sow, crow, mow, row, slow, show,

* bomb : comb : tomb, womb

* said : laid, paid, raid, maid

* read : dead (however, in the past tense read does rhyme with dead)

* their : weir

* dough : rough, tough, enough : though : through : borough, thorough

* rouge : gouge

* fiend : friend

* daughter : laughter

* hubris : debris

* derange : orange

* rugged : drugged

* love : prove

* rain : again

* good : food : blood

* lemon : demon

* stranger : anger


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  • eye rhyme — n. similarity in the spelling, rather than the pronunciation, of the ends of words or lines of verse (Ex.: lone, none; though, cough) * * * ▪ linguistics       in poetry, an imperfect rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced… …   Universalium

  • eye rhyme — eye′ rhyme n. pro sight rhyme • Etymology: 1870–75 …   From formal English to slang

  • eye-rhyme — eyeˈ rhyme noun Similarity of words in spelling but not in pronunciation • • • Main Entry: ↑eye …   Useful english dictionary

  • eye rhyme — n. similarity in the spelling, rather than the pronunciation, of the ends of words or lines of verse (Ex.: lone, none; though, cough) …   English World dictionary

  • eye rhyme — noun an imperfect rhyme (e.g., love and move ) • Hypernyms: ↑rhyme, ↑rime * * * noun : an imperfect rhyme that appears to have identical vowel sounds from similarity of spelling (as move and love or bough and …   Useful english dictionary

  • eye rhyme — noun Pairs of words (or syllables) that, because of their spelling, look as if they rhyme but, because of different pronunciation, do not Syn: sight rhyme …   Wiktionary

  • eye rhyme — noun Date: 1871 an imperfect rhyme that appears to have identical vowel sounds from similarity of spelling (as move and love) …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • eye rhyme. — See sight rhyme. [1870 75] * * * …   Universalium

  • eye rhyme — /ˈaɪ raɪm/ (say uy ruym) noun a rhyme in which two words are similar in spelling rather than sound: a tough with a cough …  

  • eye rhyme. — See sight rhyme. [1870 75] …   Useful english dictionary

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