单词 | pararhyme |
释义 | pararhymen. A half-rhyme in which there is vowel variation within the same consonant pattern.In English poetry particularly associated with the work of Wilfred Owen (1893–1918). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > half-rhyme alternity1792 skothending1838 assonance1917 pararhyme1931 off-rhyme1938 slant-rhyme1944 1931 E. Blunden in W. Owen Poems 28 Having discovered and practised this para-rhyme, Owen became aware that it would serve him infinitely in the voicing of emotion and imagination... By means of it he creates remoteness, darkness, emptiness, shock, echo, the last word. 1951 Eng. Stud. 32 68 Alliterative assonance—sometimes called para-rhyme, or dissonantal rhyme—is of course not unknown in English poetry before the twentieth century. 1987 Russ. Rev. 46 463 On many occasions Whittaker reduces Pushkin's full rhymes to semi-rhymes, such as flesh/Photius..to pararhymes, such as embark/work. 1991 New Yorker 28 Oct. 117/2 He became the first poet in English to make frequent use of what has since come to be called pararhyme or rim rhyme (e.g., light/late; soon/seen), although he almost never paired it to end words. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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