How to Teach Perfect and Imperfect Rhyme - A Mycroft Poetry Side-Bar.

[@kxngdiablomusic5686]

Yo thank you so much i got so confused im trying to learn how to rap this is some of the techniques rappers use heard about it but i never really understood till now thank you again

[@joeyblack174]

How do we call rhymes with similar vowels and consonants at the same time? E.g. love/off, fruit/wood, met/had etc.? Acoustically, they are no further than cat/map from your example. But what are your thoughts?

[@mycroftlectures]

It's an interesting point. I try to use a lot of half rhymes because I often find full rhymes too loud and too obvious. We hear them coming. Because rhyme is acoustic and not visual I would certainly use love/off as a rhyme and met/had, and I would use them with full confidence that the reader/listener would hear them as acoustically connected. I'm not so sure about fruit/wood but accent may play a part here. For me these are simply half rhymes or imperfect rhymes and I would use them as such.

[@joeyblack174]

I think, sometimes rhymes are related not only to acoustics, but to some perception. All the above examples are from non-native speakers. I believe that the acoustic distance between "love" and "off" or between "met" and "had" is the same as between "bomb" and "song" (or any combination o/ou/ʌ or æ/e with m/n). But I haven't yet seen the former examples in English lyrics, while I meet a sufficient number of the latter.