Is tongue and young a slant rhyme?

Question

I'm doing a poetry analysis for language and i can't decide whether it is a slant rhyme or true rhyme. Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

It's a true rhyme. Note that "ue" in "tongue" is silent, so it does not prevent "tongue" from rhyming with "young," since rhyme concerns itself with the sound. Giving another example, "sane" and "reign" would be considered a true rhyme despite their notably different spellings making the long "a" sound.

A slant rhyme (also known as an imperfect rhyme, half-rhyme, near rhyme) occurs when the final consonants of stressed syllables agree but the vowel sounds do not match, e.g., "love" and "have." Another kind of slant rhyme is when also the preceding consonants match but the vowels still do not (this is also referred to as "rich consonance"), e.g., "love" and "live."

So a slant rhyme for "tongue" or "young" might be "sang."

There is something called an eye rhyme in which the spelling of paired words APPEAR to match but there is no actual similarity in pronunciation, e.g., "said" and "raid."

Answer 2

Tongue and young are perfect rhymes. Why? because they have the same sound, not just the same consonance of consonants. By and sigh are also perfect rhymes. Perfect rhymes are also called true-rhymes, full-rhymes and exact-rhymes.

An example of slant rhyme, also known as half-rhyme or near-rhyme, would be "soul" and "all", where the consonants rhyme, but not the ending phonic. Within the group of "slant rhymes" exists a subcatagory called "eye-rhymes", where the endings "look" the same, but are pronounced differently, such as dough/rough and love/prove.

Answer 3

I think that would be a slant rhyme because it isn't the same sound but it still has consonance.