Rhyming "mouth" and "youth"
Yay for hymns, but sometimes you just have to shake your head regarding their lyrical construction. I have fond memories of Tom and I looking at each other during church when a particularly bad rhyme was manifesting itself. Like one we sang this morning. It starts out strong, rhyming "proclaim" and "name", but it goes downhill from there, trying to rhyme things like "save" and "have" and "extol" and "all".
It's like they were translated by someone who didn't know English well. Maybe they were. This particular lyric (Ye Servants of God) was written by Charles Wesley.
posted by Byran @ 4:30 PM
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6 Comments:
Oh yeah, I really miss you when that happens. I look around church but you aren't there.
Tom
It's called imperfect rhyme. It is a standard part of poetry. Some people actually enjoy that type of rhyme. I am not one of those people, either. But, it's poetry...who are we to argue with the rules of a poet?
(Heh)
-Carolita
Many of them are sight rhymes. I guess they're only good for reading silently.
Tom
That "save" and "have" one really irked me, too. You could have looked at me since Tom wasn't there, but I would have wondered why you were looking at me, especially since you were a few rows ahead of me.
Since you like to use initials, let's just call me "EG." Or to satisfy both sides of the punctuation fence, "EG".
BIG, FAT, GIANT PET PEEVE
Thomas, I am ashamed.
I HATE when people give each other knowing, smirky glances in church. I think it's rude.
Ag
But, I guess it depends what your smirking at. There are these people that I know, and anytime someone says somthing gramatically incorrect in a public place, they make these obvious eyes at each other. THAT is rude! Oh, I better be careful what I say though. I just did something rude in a church not long ago. I was overcoming by a desperate fit of juvenile outrage.
Ag
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