It's liberated her – who was already, God knows, so bold and free – and given her the nerve to go for the pursuit of pure pleasure in language: sounds, rhymes and half-rhymes, clever consonances and assonances, sheer love of words, the simple saying of them, the surprise of hearing them new again.
And then there are the pure sound rhymes — "bombs/someone," "outside/why/crucified" — and the combination of sound and visual rhyme in "nipples/little" and "yard/custard".
While not technically near the ground, a voice suggests "sound" and "sound" rhymes with "ground," the ground being low and possibly unclean, depending upon where, exactly, you're standing.
Over the next 20 minutes Jacquie runs through the value of turning off the telly and looking at picture books to promote language, share sounds and rhymes, and prepare a toddler for bed.
Even though it often made little sense, the drill helped him practice sounds and rhymes.
A young genius in the making, he would laugh off that his mind is always drifting into new sounds, lines, rhymes and would take a moment to acknowledge it.
Sometimes the repetition of initial vowel sounds (head rhyme) is also referred to as alliteration.
This might be called doggerel, but it is a poignant effort to speak and to control shared grief, in which the sounds of rhyme and the satisfactions of line-ending stay confusion.
Babies tend to like sounds that rhyme.
Ancient belief systems teach that in the beginning of time there was one sound, and that sound was "OM," (rhymes with home) and that by repeating the word, or sound, of "OM," we are in touch with our divine, original source.
Rhyme consists of identical ("hard-rhyme") or similar ("soft-rhyme") sounds placed at the ends of lines or at predictable locations within lines ("internal rhyme").
