[lit-ideas] Re: a niggling question

It's called near rhyme, off-rhyme, and other things. Wiki has a good entry on it (under 'near rhyme'). I like it for its examples. 

Yeats

When have I last looked on
The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies
Of the dark leopards of the moon?
All the wild witches, those most noble ladies...

[on/moon]

Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.

[soul/all]

Eric Yost knows all this stuff, and more and better.

Robert Paul

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