Did Old Mother Hubbard rhyme?
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard,
To give the poor dog a bone:
When she came there, the cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.
I must have spit out “bone” as “none” and it’s always on the other side, especially since the other verses in the poem seem to try harder to rhyme the 2nd and 4th lines.
3: She went to the
undertaker’s To buy him a
coffin; When she came back
The dog was laughing.
What may I find is a shift in pronunciation? Does the word not rhyme? What makes it not rhyme? Does it rhyme?
This is rhyming off rhyme n. Off rhyme n.
A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only, as in dry and died, grown and moon. Often called line rhyme, oblique rhyme, slant rhyme or halves rhyme.
So the answer is yes the lines don’t rhyme perfectly. The poems are rhyme, but the songs also rhyme. I’m not
so strict to the rhyme.
How does Old Mother Hubbard make great literature? Unfortunately in this case, I don’t think there’s terribly much evidence for these words rhyming (or at least not for a majority of speakers). This is true dictionaries from the 19th century. You can look at these with the words “bone”, “none” and “console”. If you want to be sarcastic and compassionate toward Old Mother Hubbard, then you could call it “visual rhyme”.
Is Old Mother Hubbard a master work of literature? Shock horror.
Coffin and laughing (laffin’) rhyme in Lancashire dialect Same as forehead and horrid.
Until now, I have never seen bone rhyme.
What is the idea behind bone rhyme?
