| 释义 |
off-rhyme
[off- 4.]
A partial or near rhyme.
1938L. MacNeice Mod. Poetry vii. 131 One can use internal rhymes, off-rhymes, bad rhymes, ‘pararhymes’. 1944― Christopher Columbus 8 Your significant variations of rhythm, your internal rhymes, your off-rhymes and assonances and technical surprises, will get in the composer's way. 1956E. Wilson Piece of My Mind (1957) vii. 124 Many kinds of liberties are countenanced—in the way of off-rhymes and irregular rhythms—in the writing of modern poetry. 1972Computers & Humanities VII. 19 Taylor is not as unsystematic as might have been thought in his use of off-rhymes. 1972J. Wain in Cox & Dyson 20th-Cent. Mind I. xi. 405 These half-rhymes of Owen's (para-rhymes, off-rhymes, even meta-rhymes, as they have been variously dubbed). 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 June 29/4 Internal rhymes (trunks, sunk), off-rhymes (salt, silt), a lyrical vocabulary (sweetness, enchanted)—all these things are here, but none of them is obtrusive. |