单词 | skothending |
释义 | skothendingn. Prosody. Chiefly in Scaldic verse: rhyme formed with the same consonant or consonant cluster preceded by differing vowels; half-rhyme. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > half-rhyme alternity1792 skothending1838 assonance1917 pararhyme1931 off-rhyme1938 slant-rhyme1944 1838 G. P. Marsh Compendious Gram. Old-Northern or Icel. Lang. iv. 144 The same consonants with different vowels (skothending, half-rhyme, or assonance). 1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. xxv. 553 In Icelandic poetry,..imperfect rhyme is regularly employed, and..is called skothendíng,..which we may conveniently translate by half-rhyme. c1873–4 G. M. Hopkins Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 243 In Icelandic verse an opposite kind of alliteration (skothendíng) is made use of, namely ending with the same consonant but after a different vowel, as ‘bad’ ‘led’, ‘find’ ‘band’, ‘sin’ ‘run’ (from Marsh, who calls it half-rhyme). 1945 L. M. Hollander Skalds 10 The skothending in the odd, and the ađalhending in the even, half-line always involve the second but last syllable. 1977 J. Milroy Lang. G. M. Hopkins v. 144 We are not accustomed to notice skothending (end-consonant rhyme) when it occurs in English. Hopkins uses it very liberally. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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