6:20 - There is a noun "bream" for freshwater fish native to Europe but that doesn't seem to fit the context of the sentence. A Scottish dictionary has an adjective “Bleak, exposed to the weather. Perhaps as originally applied to a place open to the sea-breeze.” There are numerous definitions so it is hard to say what the author intended.
I've been thinking about that term "slant rhyme" that is mentioned in multiple videos. My formal writing classes haven't gone much further then high school which likely is the reason I'm not too familiar with the term. With the best I can understand it sounds like it connects two words somewhere between alliteration and normal rhyming. If alliteration always happens at the beginning of the two words a slant rhyme can be more in the center like with "feet" and "teeth?" I tend to think of a "normal rhyme" as happening generally more at the end of word. I've just grown curious what exactly it means.
a slant rhyme is two words that have similar sounds, but don't fully rhyme. "book" and "look" are perfect rhymes, but "feet" and "teeth" are slant rhymes because they share the "ee" sound in the middle, but the ending sound is different. i would also maybe gently argue that the "t" in both "feet" and "teeth" contributes to the strength of the slant rhyme, despite the "t" being in different places in each word, but i am not an expert by any means, so i could be wrong lol i also am not sure, but i feel like a slant rhyme focuses more on the middle and end sounds, rather than on the sounds at the beginning. i feel like one could make rhymes out of the first syllable of words though, which would be interesting to see
@@MrMitchellHundred That sounds like some good guesses for what it means. I can see how it can be useful if you really need a specific word but it just doesn't fully rhyme. Sometimes a word rhymes but breaks the meaning of the poem. Yeah, I can see that.
interesting pieces and analysis, thanks for sharing!
6:20 - There is a noun "bream" for freshwater fish native to Europe but that doesn't seem to fit the context of the sentence. A Scottish dictionary has an adjective “Bleak, exposed to the weather. Perhaps as originally applied to a place open to the sea-breeze.” There are numerous definitions so it is hard to say what the author intended.
I've been thinking about that term "slant rhyme" that is mentioned in multiple videos. My formal writing classes haven't gone much further then high school which likely is the reason I'm not too familiar with the term. With the best I can understand it sounds like it connects two words somewhere between alliteration and normal rhyming.
If alliteration always happens at the beginning of the two words a slant rhyme can be more in the center like with "feet" and "teeth?" I tend to think of a "normal rhyme" as happening generally more at the end of word. I've just grown curious what exactly it means.
a slant rhyme is two words that have similar sounds, but don't fully rhyme. "book" and "look" are perfect rhymes, but "feet" and "teeth" are slant rhymes because they share the "ee" sound in the middle, but the ending sound is different. i would also maybe gently argue that the "t" in both "feet" and "teeth" contributes to the strength of the slant rhyme, despite the "t" being in different places in each word, but i am not an expert by any means, so i could be wrong lol i also am not sure, but i feel like a slant rhyme focuses more on the middle and end sounds, rather than on the sounds at the beginning. i feel like one could make rhymes out of the first syllable of words though, which would be interesting to see
@@MrMitchellHundred That sounds like some good guesses for what it means. I can see how it can be useful if you really need a specific word but it just doesn't fully rhyme. Sometimes a word rhymes but breaks the meaning of the poem. Yeah, I can see that.