I see- eye rhymes don't. They got into a row when they went for a row; When he shot his bow from the bow.
How now brown crow. >>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. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
