Rhyme feels extra impactful in English, as opposed to Romance and Slavic languages, like Italian or Russian, in which rhyme appears naturally all the time. English is full of inconsistent word pronunciations, spellings, and verb conjugations, which make rhyming trickier. The language’s haphazard political and geographical histories resulted in a hodgepodge of Germanic, Romance, and Celtic. English has thus been called a linguistic “pickpocket,” rummaging through the purses of nearby tongues for useful vocabulary. This disorderliness does not lend itself particularly well to organic rhyme. So,
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