| 单词 | eye-rhyme |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseye-rhyme eye-rhyme n. rhyme or near rhyme based on spelling rather than sound; (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > eye-rhyme eye-rhyme1797 1797 Heroic Appeal Pref. p. ix As booksellers agree that the number of those who read ‘only with their eyes’, is far greater than of those who use their tongues or ears on the occasion, the eye-rhymes may perhaps be justly esteemed the most important of the two. c1873–4 G. M. Hopkins Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 246 Unlawful rhymes—We may notice (i) mere eye-rhymes; [etc.]. 1909 O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. i. 5 But eye-rimes are of comparatively recent growth, many of them owing their origin to words of formerly identical or similar sound having now become differentiated, thus war and far. 1936 H. A. Treble & G. H. Vallins A.B.C. of Eng. Usage 157 Especially to be noted are ‘eye rhymes’, i.e. those which exist only to the eye and not the ear, like quay—day. 1992 Rev. Eng. Stud. 43 251 There are some interesting observations on eye-rhymes in Chaucer manuscripts, which indicate..a growing awareness of the look of a text in the fifteenth century. < as lemmas |
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