eye-rhyme

It was the investment in the equipment that allowed us to publish [eye-rhyme and other] work that we did.

AdPulp 2009

The rhyme to communion in ‘The Bugler’ is hideous, and the suspicion that the poet thought it ingenious is appalling; eternal, in ‘The Eurydice’, does not correspond with burn all, and in ‘Felix Randal’ and some and handsome is as truly an eye-rhyme as the love and prove which he despised and abjured; —and it is more distressing, because the old-fashioned conventional eye-rhymes are accepted as such without speech-adaptation, and to many ears are a pleasant relief from the fixed jingle of the perfect rhyme; whereas his false ear-rhymes ask to have their slight but indispensable differences obliterated in the reading, and thus they expose their defect, which is of a disagreeable and vulgar or even comic quality.

Editor’s Preface to Notes 1918