Convention vendor, compulsive writer. I have a Patreon for monthly bills and a KoFi for tips.
Back when we first met her, the Great and Powerful Trixie bragged about being the best at everything, even showing up Applejack and Rainbow Dash.
But what if it was Zecora who took her up on the challenge?
May the best rhyme-master win!
(Also some silly padding-out to get to the 1000 word minimum.)
Written for the Pony Poetry Contest.
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I haven't read this yet but I'd point out that the word "silver" doesn't have a rhyme.
Etrigan (a DC character compelled to speak in rhymes) stated that he rhymed the word "orange" with "whore binge".
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Wouldn't "Sliver" rhyme with "Silver"?
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Not the way people around here pronounce them. Silver is "sill ver". Sliver is pronounced more like "slipper". Completely different "i" sound.
Twist can rhyme "month" at least onth because she lisps.
12019470 12019495 More to the point, the rhyme has to include the vowel sound of the last accented syllable and everything that comes after. It's the difference between "ilver" and "iver" (since the vowel in both 'ver' syllables is the unaccented schwa).
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I'm confused as to how you're pronouncing "silver" (or conversely, "sliver") then, as I've only ever heard both words pronounced with a short i, same as the "slipper" example you give, have never heard any reference ever of it being pronounced any other way, and couldn't find any immediate reference just now suggesting otherwise.
Further, the site RhymeZone lists a total of 484 words (or terms) that rhyme with the word "silver," with the first 100 listed all having over a 90% match as a rhyme, including words such as river, liver, killer, quiver, thriller, miller, pillar, filler, sliver...I could go on.
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According to Wikipedia, silver is one of several English words with no perfect rhyme. The list includes "month" and "wolf".
It DOES have a number of what Wikipedia calls "slant rhymes" which are what you are listing.
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Ah, okay, I understand what you're saying here. But then your point is more that silver doesn't rhyme perfectly, which is different from it not having rhymes at all. To me, saying a word doesn't have a rhyme at all means it not only doesn't have any perfect rhymes, but also has very few if any at all slant rhymes one can readily call upon too, like the ever infamous word "orange."
Of course, I should also admit that I am no poet, and have long struggled with the nuances of the trade despite repeated attempts to, so I'm by no means saying I'm the expert here. But that's sort of the point--to the average layman, who's not going to appreciate the significance between a perfect rhyme and a slant rhyme, particularly when so many of silver's slant rhymes still get pretty close that it's not always immediately noticeable, they're going to look at your statement of silver having no rhymes without any kind of explanation why and become confused, as I did, as they start to think up all of the 400 or so slant rhymes they could list for silver, as has already been done.
Basically, I guess I'm respectively saying your point is definitely true, but much more nuanced than you conveyed in your original comment, and I think that's what's throwing responses off from catching onto that.
But then this was all making a mountain out of a molehill from the start, so...
Somebody remembers their Dr Seuss
How The Grinch Stole Christmas +
the Tweedle Beetle battle sequence from
Fox In Sox
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LMAO