I have always preferred half-rhymes. They seem more inventive, and they avoid the cringe of the rhyme. Perhaps the impact of a rhyme is in its cringe, of course: the cringe seems integral, as anyone who has accidentally rhymed in conversation knows.
A couple of weekends ago, the Met started staging a revival of John Adams' 1987 opera Nixon in China. It was broadcast to the DCA in Dundee, but I missed it because I was too busy, which is regrettable, because it is one of my favourite operas.
It has one of my favourite half-rhymes.
No, not De Gaulle,
I would not file him in that pigeon-hole.
I would not file him in that pigeon-hole.
I did a bad Fauvist watercolour of General de Gaulle a few months ago.
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