Usage in Poetry
Ogden Nash (1902-1971) used multisyllabic rhymes in a comic, satirical way, as is common in traditional comic poetry. For example, in his poem ‘The Shrimp’ he rhymes "translucence" with "nuisance", and in his poem ‘The Axolotl’ he rhymes "axolotl" with "a bottle" and "whaxolotl".
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) is one of few poets who used multisyllabic rhymes to convey non-satirical subject matter. An example of this is ‘The Bugler's First Communion’, where he rhymes "boon he on" with "Communion".
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