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Children's books that don't quite rhyme

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PolarBlair · 05/01/2023 12:46

Does anyone else find this so annoying?
I have no problem with books that don't rhyme at all.
Then there are geniuses like Julia Donaldson and Dr Seuss where it rhymes and flows so well.

But the ones I find so annoying are the ones where the syllables are off, the rhymes are not quite rhymes (in any accent), the same word has been used twice to make line A & B rhyme.

These are often self published but do the authors not realise? Do they not ask friends?

I often want to take a red pen, correct them, and send them back

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Elemenohpe · 05/01/2023 13:04

Scarf laugh and giraffe rhyme for me, must be impossible to make everything rhyme for every accent.

ChristmasCakeAndStilton · 05/01/2023 13:01

See, I don't think Donaldson always gets it right - there is a peculiar couplet in the highway rat, and scarf, laugh, giraffe don't all rhyme.

It's an accent thing as much as anything.

SleepingStandingUp · 05/01/2023 12:50

Can yo u give an example? If its rhyming 7 with anything I have sympathy. Mike Brunslow has characters looking to heaven a lot.

stargirl1701 · 05/01/2023 12:48

I do alter my accent when reading to force the rhyme.

Like in The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson scarf and laugh do not rhyme for me but I put on an English accent and go for scarf and larf!