Avoidance of rhyme

[Kythyria]

I deliberately reword things I say to prevent them rhyming, or alliterating. Both of those just bug me. I hate it when I encounter rhyme or alliteration in something someone else wrote as well.

What weird aversions of that sort do you have?

[bbctol]

I love it when things rhyme, it happens all the time.

[SpitValve]

Awesome alliteration always assists in something something. I give up.

[RealGrouchy]

Whatever happened to that limerick I wrote for Tank....

Gimme a couple minutes

Edit: Here we go:

There once was a man from Kentucky,
Who was featured in a very bad limerick.
The limerick bombed,
And so did your mom,
Because the limerick didn't even follow proper meter or rhyming pattern.

- RG>

[Infornographer]

I do not share that aversion to the magnitude you seem to express, but I do feel it. I think rhymes bother me mostly because people tend to overuse them, in the sense that many people sacrifice clarity for the sake of rhythm. I do not go out of my way to avoid it in spoken dialect, but noticing something rhyme always stops me for a split second.

I don't know if the scope of this topic extends into written word, but I also do not really enjoy ellipses (...). I think, like rhyme, people tend to overuse them when not really appropriate. It has gone from a signifier of omission to a contrived (and often poor) attempt at controlling the pace of prose and poetry.

[Ketzerei]

Your Grouchiness, that was the funniest thing I've read in days. Thank you for making the world a better place yet again.

[Rusty]

I'll often look for a synonym for a word if it makes a rhyme, unless the sentence also happens to have a really nice rhythm to it, in which case it stays and I see if I can extend it. I really like alliteration though, the tongue-twistier the better.

Whatever happened to that limerick I wrote for Tank....

Gimme a couple minutes

Edit: Here we go:

There once was a man from Kentucky,
Who was featured in a very bad limerick.
The limerick bombed,
And so did your mom,
Because the limerick didn't even follow proper meter or rhyming pattern.

- RG>

That reminds me of my favourite love poem:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet,
But unfortunately I lack a certain poetic flair.

[platypus01]

There once was a man from Kentucky,
Who was featured in a very bad limerick.
The limerick bombed,
And so did your mom,
Because the limerick didn't even follow proper meter or rhyming pattern.

- RG>

weee, reminds me of ogden nash (i think thats the one... lol)

i love rhymes and alliterations and whatnot. one of the reasons i love reading poetry (reading, mind, not analyzing..). i also prefer rhyming translations of things like chaucer and other older texts. flows better for me. but im no expert on such translations.

[pollywog]

Awesome alliteration always assists in something something. I give up.

Here, have this.

[__Kit]

Uhm, aren't alliterations always appreciated?

[dp]

Uhm, aren't alliterations always appreciated?

I'm fairly sure that's not alliteration.

[bbctol]

Uhm, aren't alliterations always appreciated?

I'm fairly sure that's not alliteration.

In fact, it's assonance. Which is a great word, because it sounds naughty, but it isn't. Like "penal".

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[Kythyria]

Funnily enough, actual poetry is okay, it's just if I'm about to say it that alliteration or rhyme is irritating. In prose, both alliteration and rhyme tend to be a bit laboured, so it jars.

It just sounds wrong.

[Daniel]

I sometimes speak in partial rhyme when I get bored. And encourage other people to change serious pieces of work to promote rhyme... I got someone to rewrite the first paragraph of a creative writing piece full of internal rhyme... still don't know how it was received...

[mrorange]

it bothers me when people speak in rhyme intentionally because it usually just comes off as super cheesy. i love alliteration and assonance and consonance and all that stuff. its a blast trying to see the longest alliterative cohesive sentence you can write... in fact... possible thread topic?

[Clumpy]

I deliberately reword things I say to prevent them rhyming, or alliterating. Both of those just bug me. I hate it when I encounter rhyme or alliteration in something someone else wrote as well.

It all started when a poet strangled my parents. . .

[Teshi]

Awesome alliteration always assists in something something.

Alliteration always assists in adding awesome.

[platypus01]

was just reminded of Alphabetical Africa. I forgot how I was first exposed to this book. Might've been my sophomore (high school) English teacher. He was (and is) awesome. And I'm still slightly disgruntled that I didn't get him this year.

[Amicitia]

Rime affects tone.

[H.E.L.e.N.]

it bothers me when people speak in rhyme intentionally because it usually just comes off as super cheesy.

Agreed, most people are doing it wrong. The phrase "poet and don't know it" makes me want to hurt people.

Here, have this.

Alan Alda's always assaulted around amorous argyle arsonists!

[Rilian]

The only reason I can think of for to avoid alliteration and assonance or rhyme is that other people sometimes give you funny looks when you do it. I don't know why they do. But I've stopped caring about those funny looks. I just say what I need to say. People occasionally mention it. The whole ordeal passes in about 2 seconds.

[Hench]

I personally have this irrational hate for rhyming. I don't know exactly why; it could be the fact that throughout my formative years in school I was constantly assaulted with poetry and forced to analyze it. I never liked poetry, and in fact still try to avoid it at all costs. Sometimes I do appreciate a clever rhyme done to be clever and not just for the rhyme's sake.

I love alliteration though. I try to use it more but I can never come up with the words to properly do it. Alas, my vernacular isn't large enough to simply grab words that start with similar sounds and make them into a coherent, if laborious, sentence. I suppose a thesaurus would help with that, but I always found it too much work to spend a lot of time finding the proper words. Damn my laziness!

[genewitch]

I deliberately reword things I say to prevent them rhyming, or alliterating. Both of those just bug me. I hate it when I encounter rhyme or alliteration in something someone else wrote as well.

What weird aversions of that sort do you have?

people who do it in a cheesy way bother me, personally (poet and didn't know it, as stated above)
I wish i could talk in meter on demand. i have a friend that can do non-rhyming meter whenever he wants, his favorite is Iambic Pentameter, and it sounds like he's almost making fun of rap. "what did you do today?" "i took a ride down to the store" and then i laugh.

Alliteration is cool, to me. Especially if you can pull it off because you have a large vocabulary.

[koalabäh]

I usually replace "poet and didn't know it" with "poet and never noticed".
Witty and original rhymes are cool though.

[jmce]

Call me clumsy and unsophisticated (or anything else you like, I can't hear you), but I like to add a bit of unforced alliteration into, say, blog posts. I hope it makes readers who notice it feel a little bit of extra love.

[1337geek]

Whatever happened to that limerick I wrote for Tank....

Gimme a couple minutes

Edit: Here we go:

There once was a man from Kentucky,
Who was featured in a very bad limerick.
The limerick bombed,
And so did your mom,
Because the limerick didn't even follow proper meter or rhyming pattern.

- RG>

That reminds me of my favourite love poem:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet,
But unfortunately I lack a certain poetic flair.

These both remind me of one of my favorite poems:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Most poems rhyme
But this one doesn't

[evilbeanfiend]

reminds me of the poems they had on up pompeii - will see if i can find one

[Ari]

Don't avoid every chance to rhyme.
Just pad them nicely.
So they don't run up against each other all the time.

[genewitch]

just out of curiosity, is it hard to not rhyme on purpose?
I mean there's a lot of words you can end a sentence with that have a ton of rhymes...

Wouldn't avoiding rhymes sometimes make your speech sound awkward?

also do you swear if you rhyme on accident?

"i'm gunna pay my tab and then take a cab... FUCK!"

[Alpha Omicron]

I don't mind rhymes, but alliteration bugs me. It seems so pre-school.

[gmalivuk]

I don't mind rhymes, but alliteration bugs me. It seems so pre-school.

I think, with either rhymes or alliteration, the annoyingness depends on how much work went into making it so. The occasional accidental rhyme or alliteration never bothers me much, but if the words or syntax you use are unusual enough to suggest you did it on purpose, then I think it's generally stupid, at least in prose.

To put it elsewise:
What's wrong with words with similar sounding syllables?

[Nimz]

I don't mind rhymes, but alliteration bugs me. It seems so pre-school.

I think, with either rhymes or alliteration, the annoyingness depends on how much work went into making it so. The occasional accidental rhyme or alliteration never bothers me much, but if the words or syntax you use are unusual enough to suggest you did it on purpose, then I think it's generally stupid, at least in prose.

To put it elsewise:
What's wrong with words with similar sounding syllables?

In the context of prose, accidental rhymes and alliterations are just fine. The trick to purposefully doing it without being blatant is to make it seem accidental or effortless. I occasionally add rhymes or alliterations to serious writing as a means of emphasising the rhymed or alliterated portion. If I can't make it flow naturally, I won't force it in unnaturally.

[Number3Pencils]

We once bought new silverware that came in a box with a clear plastic sleeve on it that you could slide off. The box said, "Slowly slide sleeve sideways to feel fantastic flatware finish."

The finish didn't live up to the alliteration.