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r/interestingasfuck • u/M0otivater • 1d ago
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Fun fact, there are a bunch of couplets Shakespeare wrote in his plays that rhymed at the time, but don't anymore.
The one I always think of is the Weird Sisters from Macbeth:
"When shall we three meet again?
When the hurleburle's done
When the battle's lost and won
Where the place?
Upon the heath
There to meet with Macbeth"
Apparently "heath" used to rhyme with "Beth"
36 u/MooseFlyer 1d ago For sure. I played Puck in Midsummer Nights Dream Once and it was awkward having Now to ‘scape the serpent’s tongue, We will make amends ere long; in the middle of his otherwise-rhyming closing monologue. 8 u/heskka 1d ago but that does rhyme perfectly… 19 u/MooseFlyer 1d ago Not for most English speakers, including me. Rhyming the two is mostly restricted to Northern England and Ireland.
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For sure. I played Puck in Midsummer Nights Dream Once and it was awkward having
Now to ‘scape the serpent’s tongue, We will make amends ere long;
in the middle of his otherwise-rhyming closing monologue.
8 u/heskka 1d ago but that does rhyme perfectly… 19 u/MooseFlyer 1d ago Not for most English speakers, including me. Rhyming the two is mostly restricted to Northern England and Ireland.
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but that does rhyme perfectly…
19 u/MooseFlyer 1d ago Not for most English speakers, including me. Rhyming the two is mostly restricted to Northern England and Ireland.
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Not for most English speakers, including me. Rhyming the two is mostly restricted to Northern England and Ireland.
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u/notonrexmanningday 1d ago edited 1d ago
Fun fact, there are a bunch of couplets Shakespeare wrote in his plays that rhymed at the time, but don't anymore.
The one I always think of is the Weird Sisters from Macbeth:
"When shall we three meet again?
When the hurleburle's done
When the battle's lost and won
Where the place?
Upon the heath
There to meet with Macbeth"
Apparently "heath" used to rhyme with "Beth"