Monday 25 November 2013

Rhymelessness

Rhymelessness: noun. The state of being absoluetly rhymeless, which relates not only to words, but also to people, notes and visual arts. For example, the word purple was (at least until the invention of the word shmurple) rhymeless, as there used to be no word that rhymed with it.  Many opera fans would add to this, saying that Luciano Pavarotti also demonstrated a sense of rhymelessness, because there will never be anyone like him. In a quite different way, one could say that certain notes are rhymeless; for example the brown note, as the only thing that would rhyme with it would be another brown note - the repeated use of which would make people rather angry. Moreover, in the art field, the repetition of certain elements (which is called visual rhyme) is sometimes aesthetically pleasing, however not with certain motifs like lemmings on spikes, rendering them absolutely rhymeless.

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