| 释义 |
‖ skothending Pros.|ˈskɒthɛndɪŋ|
[ON.]
Chiefly in Scaldic verse: rhyme formed with the same consonant or consonant cluster preceded by differing vowels; half-rhyme.
1838G. P. Marsh Compendious Gram. Old-Northern or Icel. Lang. iv. 144 The same consonants with different vowels (skothending, half-rhyme, or assonance). 1860,1873–4[see half-rhyme s.v. half- II. n]. 1945L. M. Hollander Skalds 10 The skothending in the odd, and the ađalhending in the even, half-line always involve the second but last syllable. 1977J. Milroy Lang. G. M. Hopkins v. 144 We are not accustomed to notice skothending (end-consonant rhyme) when it occurs in English. Hopkins uses it very liberally. |