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Examples of vowel rhyme
vowel rhyme
The rhyme may of course extend even farther back than the last stressed vowel.
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As stated above, in a perfect rhyme the last stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical in both words.
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If the sound preceding the stressed vowel is also identical, the rhyme is sometimes considered to be inferior and not a perfect rhyme after all.
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As a result, historically monosyllabic tile, boil and fowl come to rhyme with historically disyllabic dial, royal and vowel.
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Readers tend not to notice the lack of rhyme because of the richness and variety of the vowel sounds Tennyson employs.
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I don't have Iona and Peter Opie's writings before me, but they claim the rhyme from this couplet dates it as prior to the vowel shift.
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