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Rhyme in The Wild Swans at Coole
Rhyme Examples in The Wild Swans at Coole:
The Wild Swans at Coole
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This poem has numerous “Yeatsian rhymes,” also known as slant rhymes. These rhymes between words whose vowel sounds do not quite match were a stylistic signature of Yeats’s work. Examples of Yeatsian rhyme in this poem include “beautiful”/“pool”; “lover”/“air”; and “stones”/“swans.”