Rhyme: /raɪm/

قافیه خطی/ Eye rhyme

قافیه خطی به کلماتی می‌ گویند که در نوشتار،

هم‌ قافیه اما در تلفظ متفاوت باشند. این مورد در شعر فارسی

کاربردی... ندارد، اما می‌ توان به عنوان مثال کلمات خِرَد و خُرد را

ذکر کرد. شاید بتوان این قافیه را با یکی از انواع

عیوب قافیه (اقوا) مشابه دانست.

در انگلیسی، برای نمونه، کلمات

laughter و daughter قافیه‌ خطی است.

An eye rhyme, also called a visual rhyme or a sight rhyme,

is a rhyme in which two words are spelled

similarly but pronounced differently.

Poetry and Rhyme

Rhyme is one of the most useful tools in poetry.

It is the repetition of similar sounds in two or

more words or phrases.

Poets use rhyme to create sound patterns for many reasons,

including musicality and emphasizing ideas or themes.

Many poets like to stretch the utility of rhyme and

use it in different ways. One such way is to use

eye rhyme instead of exact rhyme.

Eye rhyme occurs when words use the same spelling for

a portion of the word, but the pronunciations are different.

For example, look at the words cough and bough.

On paper, they might look like they sound the same because

the last halves of the words are spelled identically with -ough.

But do they sound the same? Do they rhyme? No, of course not.

The two words have a different vowel sound.The spelling is the same,

but the pronunciation is different, and the words

do not actually rhyme. This is eye rhyme.

Not all poets like to use exact rhyme.

Some believe exact rhyme is too limiting or

that it creates a singsong aspect to poems,

which takes away from the true theme or message.

In this way, eye rhyme can be useful in poetry in

allowing for more possibilities and changing

the sound pattern to prevent predictability.

Example: 'The Last Rose of Summer'

Let's look at an example of eye rhyme in the first stanza of

the poem 'The Last Rose of Summer' by Thomas Moore.

' 'Tis the last rose of summer,

Left blooming alone;

All her lovely companions

Are faded and gone;'

The final words of the second and fourth lines show eye rhyme.

Listen to 'alone' and 'gone.' Do they actually rhyme?

No, they do not, but they are spelled the same.

This is a great example of eye rhyme.

Perhaps one of the reasons Moore chose to use eye rhyme was

because of his subject matter. Moore is writing about

summer fading with a lonely rose left while all the others

have wilted, which creates a sad or depressed tone.

If his lines rhymed and bounced like a children's song,

the overall tone of the poem would be very

different from what he is trying to elicit.

Prepared by Shemshad keshtkar