This type of rhyme pattern creates a song-like tune, making the poem a melodic art form to read through. It also adds a great deal of pleasurability by maintaining a predictable set of word sounds, and additionally shows Cumming’s attention to traditional forms of poetry (which almost always follow some form of rhyme pattern). While most of the end rhymes are true rhymes, there are a few places in which eye rhymes are created instead. One instance of this can be noted in lines two and four, with the last words of each being “recall” and “fail,” respectively. “Recall” contains the “ɔ” sound, while in “fail,” the “e” sound is the predominant vowel. While these two words are clearly not identical in the sounds they make when spoken aloud, they do resemble one another symbolically, with both ending in -al. Eye rhymes provide poets who aim to follow a strict end rhyme scheme with more options when it comes to
This type of rhyme pattern creates a song-like tune, making the poem a melodic art form to read through. It also adds a great deal of pleasurability by maintaining a predictable set of word sounds, and additionally shows Cumming’s attention to traditional forms of poetry (which almost always follow some form of rhyme pattern). While most of the end rhymes are true rhymes, there are a few places in which eye rhymes are created instead. One instance of this can be noted in lines two and four, with the last words of each being “recall” and “fail,” respectively. “Recall” contains the “ɔ” sound, while in “fail,” the “e” sound is the predominant vowel. While these two words are clearly not identical in the sounds they make when spoken aloud, they do resemble one another symbolically, with both ending in -al. Eye rhymes provide poets who aim to follow a strict end rhyme scheme with more options when it comes to