下面是字典里对完美押韵的定义:
Perfect Rhyme (noun):
Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeedingconsonants or syllables are identical, while the precedingconsonants are different.
完美押韵的例子比如说有cat, hat, bat; cake, bake, fake.
完美押韵并不仅仅是像上面的严格的拼写字数,而是他的发音,比如说 great, late; height, fight; bought,knot.
这些虽然字数不一样,但是依然属于完美押韵,举例:
Hailie I know you miss yourmom and I know you miss yourdad
When I'm gone but I'm trying ti give you the lifethat I never had
I can see you're sad
even when you smile even when you laugh
完美押韵在很多情况下都能很好的应用,但是嘻哈音乐的改革者发现,这样
严格的押韵局限性太大,他们开始使用Slant Rhyme(缺陷押韵)来让自己更自由的说唱.
字典里对缺陷押韵的定义如下
Slant Rhyme (noun):
A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonanceonly. Also called half rhyme, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, and offrhyme.
人们可以把缺陷押韵看成是“几乎押韵”例如:heat, heart; cow, no; dry,died; love, fluff.
缺陷押韵意思是某部分发音相似,但是并不是完全押韵
{什么时候该使用缺陷押韵?}
任何时候,但是有些时候缺陷押韵并不是一种选择,而是必须要这样押韵.
1.当某些单词没有完美押韵时
英语中很多单词并没有perfectrhyme,比如说:
silver,purple, month,angst, sixth, breadth, ninth, pint,wolf,opus,monster,dangerous, marathon,
napkin,hostage,discombobulate
在Em的一首名叫cleaning out my closet的歌曲中,他用了一个无完美押韵的month
但是他同样的能令这段歌词flow很棒:
Iwas a baby, maybe I was just a couple of months
Myfaggot father must have had his panties up in a bunch
causehe split, I wonder if he even kissed me goodbye
NoI don't on second thought I just fuckin wished he would die
2.避免太过俗套的押韵
有些完美押韵已经被人用烂了,听起来让人乏味,最好就选择替换成缺陷押韵,比如
knowledge和college,人们已经不知道有多少次听到这对押韵了,为了避免这种情况,我们必须用缺陷押韵,
例如,knowledge的缺陷押韵-mallkids, honest, ballas,taller, Paul Wall did, on it, admonish,cabbage.