Talk:The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

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[edit] Eye-rhyme

The couplet "And if these pleasures may thee move, // Come live with me and be my love" are not, as a previous, probably American, editor considered, reliant on British pronunciation. They are in fact an example of eye-rhyme, or at best, parial-consonance. Marlowe's seeming difficulty with rhyming simple words (whilst effortlessly rhyming, for instance, "falls/madrigals" and "kirtle/myrtle") are an example of the naively honest message and tone of the poem.