Howard
Le 4 oct. 08 à 16:56, howard posner a écrit :
I think most of those "eye rhymes" were real, as in the love-prove-
move example I mentioned earlier. Those rhymes show up so often that
it would be downright weird if they weren't real rhymes.
See, for example, how many times "eye" rhymes with something that
apparently sounds "ee".
Chaucer rhymed "eye" with "melody" in the Canterbury Tales around
1390.
Note how even today, "daisy", a compound noun, derived from "Dayas
eye" (eye of the day), keeps the "y" sound through it having been
shortened and destressed (it escaped the Great Vowel shift), while
the fully stressed long vowel in "eye" has undergone thatl shift to
become "ai" (in standard BBC English).
Anthony
500 years later, Blake rhymed "eye" with "symmetry" in The Tyger.
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