[lit-ideas] Slant!

In a message dated 2/25/2009 1:14:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
pastone@xxxxxxxxx writes:
I want to know if there's a word (just like there  was a word for the
stringy things in bananas -- 'phloem bundles' -- thanks DR  and RP) for
the act of 'almost rhyming' but not  quite.

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[a. ON. *slenta (Norw. slenta, older Da. slente; cf. MSw. and Sw. slinta)  to 
slant, slope, slip. See also SKLENT v.] 
 

The English language is very poor in rhymes, when compared with  Italian. 
Accordingly, half-rhymes are admissible..: sun/gone, love/move,  allow/bestow, 
etc.
 
     Meiklejohn, Eng. Lang., 1886, p. 186
 
Anathema for Bellini!
 
Some people who want to defend Keats on that front would say -- I've seen  
it, wiki -- what does not rhyme for P. Stone did rhyme for 'our Cockney boy,  
Keats' (Blackwood's Gentlemen Magazine). But it's different with Bacharach. 
 
Geary arrives at the same conclusions as Meiklejohn in his recent poetry  
recital:
 
    "You'all seen that I've started to use other lingos in  my
     verse. "Ciao" here; "Schadenfreude" there. _Why_  you
     will ask. Have I ceased being a  Southerner?!"
 
Later, on p. 143 he continues:
 
     "I _am_ still a Southerner".
 
And on p. 244 -- note:

"Speranza has analysed my use of 'ciao'. He fails to quote -- or
        was it out of respect, the  latest cite in the OED for 'ciao'. I add 
it
        here for Eric Yost to  ponder:
 
1980 ‘C. BIRDWELL’ Amazons xi. 269, I heard Floss ask Murray, ‘When did New  
Yorkers stop saying ciao?’
 
 
Cheers,
 
JL

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