[lit-ideas] Re: a niggling question

Then there's forced joking rhyme, as in Byron's Don Juan [Don Joo-an]. Here's an example from Canto I: 



I want a hero: an uncommon want,
    When every year and month sends forth a new one,

<big snip to present the context of the mispronunciation>

    But can't find any in the present age
Fit for my poem (that is, for my new one);
So, as I said, I'll take my friend Don Juan.


At some point, Byron makes Cadiz rhyme with Hades.


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