Quick English question

[taimatsu]

Re. William Meredith's poem 'The Illiterate', is there a technical term for the use of repeated words instead of rhymes? I can't think of it and can't find the right terms with which to hunt for it. I'm writing an analysis of the poem for this evening, so please don't make any other detailed comments on the poem till after, erm, 7.30pm, so I'm not tempted to copy your brilliant ideas - if you do know the term I'm after, though, please let me know ASAP. :)

Update: undyingking came up trumps - it's identity rhyme (and a touch of ambiguous rhyme, too) as explained on this page. Ah, I do like it when LJ does my homework... :)

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[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Jinx. I was just writing a comment about sweetcorn blobs.

Imagine, right, that you don't have enough flour, and by the time you realise it you can't be bothered going out, so you end up with a mix that's far too gloopy. So you decide to try it anyway. It rolls all over the pan, and starts to look like pale manky scrambled eggs, so you just carry on frying it until it goes golden-brown by attrition? Well, turns out you end up with REALLY CRUNCHY but not stodgy sweetcorn blobs, and they're delicious with sweet chilli sauce as I expected the normal ones to be.

Well that's what just happened to me. Working from home eh, that's the life.

[taimatsu]

Oooh, that sounds interesting. If the mix is very thin, though, does the sweetcorn not burn?

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Possibly a little bit. Not to the point of being inedible, but then you know me...