A Nifty Zeugma

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brogine
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A Nifty Zeugma

Postby brogine » Fri Jul 30, 2021 4:41 pm

From Kismet’s Baubles, Bangles and Beads:

I’ll sparkle and gleam so . . . *
Make somebody dream so . . . *
That . . . some day . . . *
He may . . . .

* Pauses, not elisions

The first ‘so’ connoting ‘to such an extent’, and the second ‘with the result that’.
The only trouble with Kismet is that knowledge of the lyrics can interfere with the enjoyment of Borodin’s utterly wondrous music.

Another great lyric from American musical theater:

She started a heat wave
By making her seat wave . . . .

Heat Wave, from Berlin’s As Thousands Cheer.

‘I got a million of ’em’. Just ask.

Oops! Meant to ask: anyone know if there’s a term for a rhyme on a penultimate syllable?

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Re: A Nifty Zeugma

Postby Slava » Wed Jul 19, 2023 8:24 am

This stanza and zeugma are also discussed here.
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Re: A Nifty Zeugma

Postby bnjtokyo » Wed Jul 19, 2023 7:11 pm

Encyclopedia Britannia
feminine rhyme, also called double rhyme, in poetry, a rhyme involving two syllables (as in motion and ocean or willow and billow). The term feminine rhyme is also sometimes applied to triple rhymes, or rhymes involving three syllables (such as exciting and inviting). Robert Browning alternates feminine and masculine rhymes in his “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”:
https://www.britannica.com/art/feminine-rhyme

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Types of rhyme

Postby Audiendus » Sat Jul 22, 2023 11:19 pm

According to Wikipedia, three-syllable rhymes such as amorous and glamorous are called dactylic.

Then there are four-syllable rhymes such as pleasurable and measurable.

In British English, 'veterinary' is stressed only on the first syllable (not the first and fourth as in American English). So we could have a limerick:

There was a young man who said 'veterinary'
As if it were Latin, like 'weterinary'.
How very sublime –
A five-syllable rhyme!
A German might render it 'feterinary'.


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