American Rhyme

[Frank Daniel]

Words that rhyme with sauce: according to Rhyme Zone.

1 syllable:

bloss, boss, boss', bross, clauss, closs, cos, coss, cros, cross, dos, doss, dross, fauss, fross, gloss, goss, joss, kjos, kloss, knauss, knous, koss, krause, krausse, kross, los, loss, mauss, mos, moss, nauss, noss, oss, ploss, poss, pross, ros, ross, schloss, sloss, soss, stauss, toss, vause, voss, yoss, zoss

Well so much for American rhyme. I haven't heard of too many of the above words, and horse didn't even get a mention.

The following are rhymes with Horse
borse, bourse, coarse, corse, course, 'course, force, forse, fourths, hoarse, morse, morss, norse, nourse, sorce, source, vorce

And here's what they think of Australia

2 syllables:
thalia

3 syllables:
azalea, regalia, sedalia, shamalia, vidalia

4 syllables:
bacchanalia, false azalea, swamp azalea


Gawd 'elp us!

Joe

[Maureen K Clifford]

Well Joe I am sure you know


A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.

Go right to the source and ask the horse
He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse.
He's always on a steady course.
Talk to Mr. Ed.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And this one'll talk 'til his voice is hoarse.
You never heard of a talking horse?

Well listen to this, disregard Rhymezone 'cause

I am Mister Ed.

[Vic Jefferies]

Funny how things stick in your mind. I am a great fan of Robert W Service but I have never been able to get over his rhyming CALM with DAMN in his classic The Shooting of Dan McGrew:
"Then his lips went in to a kind of grin, and he spoke, and his voice was CALM
And "Boys," says he, "you don't know me, and none of you care a DAMN."

One of my favourite poems written by someone I consider a genius but whenever I recite or even think about the poem that horrible mistake looms large!

Just for interest Dan McGrew is said to be the most financially rewarding poem ever written with Service making at least half a million dollars from it (and that was calculated at least fifty years ago.)

Can't think of where but in another Australian poem someone once rhymed swamp with camp. Have never got over that either but have to admit they are almost a sight rhyme.

[Peely]

G'day Vic

I was thinking of "The Drover's Dream" when you mentioned the rhyme with 'swamp', but the rhyme in that one is 'damp' - it may have also been the one you were thinking of. In this case it is just a simple example of a sight rhyme (for those trying to get up to speed on definitions, look to have the same ending but pronounced differently).

The frogs from out the swamp where the atmosphere is damp
Came bounding in and sat upon the stones

Another one from Robert W Service, basically the same sort of pairing as in "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" appears in "The Cremation of Sam MacGee" (the internal rhymes 'Sam' and 'calm'):

And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm in the heat of the furnace roar

Then there is the other favourite pairing of the early bush poets of 'rush' and 'bush' - there are numerous examples of this one in Banjo Paterson's writing.

Regards


John Peel

[David Campbell]

Maureen

Should that be: " A hoss is a hoss, of coss, of coss..."?

I dunno, Frank...American pronunciation leaves me quite at a lauce.

David

[Bob Pacey]

Sounds like if you do not have a word you just make one up !!!!!


Bob

[Maureen K Clifford]

Hoss is not a made up word Bob he rode with Adam and Little Joe on the Ponderosa - he was the BIG big brother.

Oh I used to love that show. Cowboys My son has just downloaded 27 John Wayne movies for me - Hog heaven

[Bob Pacey]

Nah only cowboy movie that i ever wanted to see again and again was The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. and could listen to the song over and over again as well.

See Ya Pardner

Big Bob

[Neville Briggs]

And Frank, if you are Humphrey Bogart, sauce rhymes with harsh.

[Vic Jefferies]

Good On You Peely,
Yep, that is the one The Drover's Dream with swamp and damp!
Blue The Shearer is,for my money, the best at fractured rhymes though he does it on purpose and turns it in to an art form. His latest and greatest is "pomp tutor" for "computer" in his poem about the royal wedding.
I have been trying to convince him for years to put out a Blue The Shearers rhyming dictionary but he keeps on "procrastinating."