How did they know how to speak in rhyme in Chaucer's day?
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Are you suggesting that the people always spoke in rhyme or hasn't your teacher explained that Chaucer as a poet and story teller and that he told his stories in rhyme.
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practice insanely.  read alot of old poetry for inspiration -- you dont' want to sound like everyone else do ya? \n\nRead Byron, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Barret Browning, T.S. Elliot, Walt Whitman, and Shelley.  They'll inspire you, and help you learn words that rhyme that you would never have thought of... (some of the words are only in unabridged dictionaries anymore).
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Surprisingly enough, spelling errors have remained fairly constant over time.  Here are some websites that identify the most common spelling errors made generally.\n\nAnd I think this poem can help us understand why so many people have such trouble with English spelling.\n\nWhen the English tongue we speak\nWhy is break not rhymed with freak?\nWill you tell me why it’s true\nWe say sew, but likewise few?\nAnd the maker of a verse,\nCannot rhyme his horse with worse?\nBeard is not the same as heard,\nCord is different from word,\nCow is cow, but low is low,\nShoe is never rhymed with foe.\nThink of hose and dose and lose,\nAnd think of goose and yet of choose,\nThink of comb and tomb and bomb,\nDoll and roll and home and some.\nAnd since pay is rhymed with say,\nWhy not paid with said I pray?\nThink of blood and food and good;\nMould is not pronounced like could.\nWherefore done, but gone and lone -\nIs there any reason known?\nTo sum up all, it seems to me\nSounds and letters don’t agree. \n\nI hope this helps!
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people that write several sentences in a row and spell the words in slang.
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It depends which language they originated from - English is a mixture of lots of languages like Latin, Old German, Old English, French and even Arabic - all of which have different ways of pronouncing words.\n\nThere is a (very old, but I've updated it) story of a language student who thought he'd finally got the hang of English, then he saw a sign saying "Yahoo Answers pronounced success!"\n\n...and he gave up and went home.
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There are very few PERFECT rhymes for "pudding" if pronounced in its formally correct way, and two of them are SURNAMES: Gooding, Wooding.  But I doubt names is what you are after.    The one that I know is 'just an ordinary word' is the verb form "hooding", which may be of limitd use.\n\n(Note: those who have listed these words before just plugged in the word "pudding" at rhymezone.com, and copied what they saw, without checking the word links to see that these words are NAMES.  Rhymezone does not capitalize any of its words, so you have to check that way.  Also, I believe they use a different color the links when they are names than when they are simple words -- a lighter blue, I believe.)\n\nAlso, words like 'budding' or 'flooding' don't quite word as perfect rhymes, because the VOWEL sound in the first syllable is different.\n\nAnd while rhyming a two-word phrase with a single word is perfectly fine so long as the overall accent and sounds match, the type of examples suggested so far don't seem to work that way.  If there were a word "shoulding" (pronounced /shooding/) that would be OK, but the accent of the expression "should ding" is not quite the same.\n\nOne alternative is to try to rhyme with the more slang form "puddin'".  For that you can use "wooden".\n\nThe other route to go is to seek a "NEAR rhyme" in which most of the sounds from the accented vowel match or ALMOST match, esp. the vowel sounds and the final consonant or consonant cluster (called "full assonance" and "final consonance".    How well any given near rhyme will work depends on the specific context you are using it in. (Certain places in poems and certain types of poetry demand closer matching.  Humorous verse, such as limericks, is often quite forgiving, even allowing some slight MISpronounciation.)\n\n"FOOTING" is the best I can think, since in context this t is barely distinguishable from the d sound of pudding (at least in American English)\n\nMore distant - booking,brooking, cooking, looking, noodging, wooshing, swooshing, sqooshing (pronouncing the last three with the same vowel some as the u in puding, NOT with a long u)\n\nIf this is your approach, it is possible that "budding", etc., will work for you, though the fact that the vowel that differs is the accented one 0amd thus a more prominent sound in the word) makes it less than ideal.    Another possibility along these lines is a word with a LONG u sound -- like brooding, booting, hooting, looting, shooting, tooting, uprooting \n\nAnd as a near rhyme for "puddin'" try:  couldn't, wouldn't, shouldn't
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Chaucer uses satire in the Canterbury Tales to make important messages about gender. You may want to expand on the "important messages" part as I have only read a few of his tales.
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From the link below:\n\n"When the vowels in the final accented syllables of the two rhyming words and the consonants (if any) succeeding the vowel have exactly the same sound, it is called perfect rhyme, e.g., shroud and cloud, mark and bark. "\n\nNote also the wording about masculine and feminine rhymes in the link below.
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Perce\nv. t.\nTo pierce. [Obs.] Chaucer. \n\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/perce-1?method=22
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You'd do best to start simple. Eight lines, for instance, with either eight or ten syllables in each line. Make the last word in line 2 rhyme with the last word in line 4, and the last word in line 6 rhyme with th elast word in line 8. You don't have to make all the lines rhyme. You might want to try meter; if so, iambic is the easiest.\n\nLike singing, juggling, riding a bicycle no hands or baking a cake, it takes practice.\n\nFigure out what you like best about him - or just something you like about him - and set it to rhyme.\n\n"I love to take your hand in mine, as we\nWalk a-long life's trail; you are so strong and\nWarm, I feel pro-tec-ted in your grasp, I\nE'en like the feel of call-ous on your hand."\n\nI put "-" in to show syllables. "E'en" is a poetic contraction to make the last line come out 10 syllables. It means "Even". I didn't use much meter. The first eight syllables in the first line are iambic (soft-hard). Then it goes to pot. "as we" is two soft syllables in a row.\n\nThis one was what we in the writing trade call quick and dirty. Yours will vary. If he doesn't hold your hand when you walk together, or he doesn't have callouses, pick something else you like about him. It would probably be better to write a number of short ones about shared times or different things you like about him than to try to put all of your love in one long poem.\n\nThere are poems that don't rhyme or have meter. They are easier to write, but they aren't as good. They are like serving hamburger helper instead of rib steak.\n\nMeter means you have a pattern of soft and hard syllables. Most people prounounce "Even" with a strong "E" and a soft "ven", for instance. Iambic means you alternate soft and hard syllables, starting with a soft one. Some people say it is the natural form of English. Iambic pentameter is five of each in each line. Shakespeare used it a lot.
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Don't stress too much - a poem does not have to rhyme. Write down a few quick impressions, organize them in a certain order, use symbolism (such as a rose - "a rose by any other name" in full bloom - 1st love, then fading, the petals dropping one by one, etc)pull it together. It does not have to be sappy. Good luck.
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The history of poetry is that it orginally came from england in the 1700's when the settlers came over. it consisted of words that rhymed and was slowly said with feeling then the settlers later called it poetry.
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Anything from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Most of the poems were turned into songs for the musical Cats which is based on the book. You could learn the song as an easy way to memorize the poem. I suggest "The Song of the Jellicles" (aka.  "Jellicle Cats").\nhttp://www.americanpoems.com/poets/tseliot/5539
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If it's so easy, how come you are asking a bunch of strangers on the internet to do it for you?\n\nHere's a rhyming dictionary. \n\nhttp://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=do&typeofrhyme=perfect&org1=syl&org2=l\n\nWhy don't you use your incredible brain power and figure it out yourself
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How to go about finding good rhymes:\n\nTo get a "perfect rhyme" you would have to exactly match all the sounds from the accented vowel to the end of the word.  That is, any perfect rhyme would have to end with "-anvas" (at least in sound, if not in spelling).\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/61/83/P0188300.html\n\nIn this case there is no such PERFECT rhyme (something that is much more often the case than people realize).  But you can do rather well at finding a "NEAR rhyme" by matching the VOWEL sounds of these syllables ('full assonance'), ending with the same consonant sound ('final consonance') [or perhaps something close] and matching, or coming as close as possible to matching the remaining consonants.   In ANY case, the ACCENT of the words must be the same (words ending with an accented "-ASS" will NOT work!)\n\nFor the 'near matching' pay attention to sounds that are likely to provide the closest matches:\n\n* /m/ and /ng/ sounds are very close to the /n/ sound (all three are 'nasals'), /d/ and voice /th/ are also reasonably close\n* the closest sounds to /v/ are /f/ /b/ an /p/  (all are labials --formed with the lips); /th/ is close (esp the voiced version as in 'there')\n* for the final voiceless /s/ you might be able to use the related voiced /z/ sound or the /sh/ sound (these three s-sounds are called 'sibilants')\n\nAdding an extra consonant sound, or deleting one, esp. from a cluster or consecutive sounds may also work.   So for instance, you might omit the n or v, or add an r after the combination.\n\nFinally, for the vowels -- perfect matching is desirable, but sometimes you can use something very close.   Also be sure you pay attention to WHAT the vowel sounds really are, which is NOT the same as looking at the letters!      \n\nIn this case \n1)  the a of "can" is the short a of 'cat' ,etc. -- but note that following it with an r changes it to a different sound;  also, since this vowel has the accent, it is likely to be less forgiving of substitutes (such as a short e).\n2)  the "a" in "vas" is the unaccented, 'swallowed', sometimes almost non-existent vowel-sound called "schewa" or "schwa" [since that e itself is an instance of the sound].  Short unaccented vowel-sounds like short i and the sound of 'uh' may work but are not identical.\n\nNow which of the possibilities will work may depend on the exact context in which you are using it -- some rhyme-schemes and types of poetry demand very close matching, others are more forgiving (a limerick for instance).    In some poetic contexts you can even play a bit with the pronunciation to make it match better.  AND occasionally a dialectal pronunciation may allow a word to work or work better which otherwise wouldn't.\n\n\nSo, here are some ideas:\n\niambus\ncampus, Grampus\n\nCandice\ncanthus, xanthous\nKansas\nankus\nangus\nanxious\nchancrous\npolyandrous\npangus\n\nenchantress  (the final  short e is not a perfect match, but close)\n\n'command us', 'stamp us' and other two-word combinations may work, though notice that the final vowel is a short u, not a schewa.  (Since the final word IS a separate word it takes more accent which prevents the vowel from being 'reduced' all the way to a schewa.) \n\nIF the dialect you use 'drops' final r's, the following might work:\nambers, cambers\ncamphors\n\nSometimes the following words virtually drop the middle syllable, which might make them reasonable matches:\namorous, clamorous, glamorous  (to indicate the shortened version one might write them as "am'rous", etc.)
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5 lines or verses  \nlimericks, use a distinctive rhyming scheme of a-a-b-b-a in which the first, second, and fifth lines of each stanza rhyme as do the third and fourth lines. My poetic limericks also utilize the unique limerick meter.
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Here is a poem about english, I'm not sure if its the right one I think this might not be it because I know of another one but can't recall what its about, but this one's worth a try! Hope I'm right!\n\nhttp://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/stuff/english-pronunciation.html\n\nor this one\n\nhttp://www.rocksforkids.com/FabFours/spelling.htm