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Can English have words that are both alliterations and also rhyme? is looking for the sets of words that I want to put a specific term to.

Sets of words such as:

I'm wanting the missing word in

These words X with each other

where 'X' is something more comprehensive than "alliterate" or "rhyme" because they don't encompass that the other pattern is occurring too.

Minimal pair is close, but that allows single phoneme variation in any location, not just the middle, and wouldn't allow a hypothetical set of four-phoneme words that vary in their middle two.

Malady
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  • Isn't it "poetic" or "creative" use? – Weather Vane Oct 21 '23 at 20:53
  • @WeatherVane - The "poetic" in the title might be irrelevant. Not sure? I'm wanting the missing word in "These words [X] with each other", where X is something comprehensive than "alliterate" or "rhyme" because they don't encompass that the other pattern is occurring too. – Malady Oct 21 '23 at 20:59
  • Perhaps the words 'resonate'. – Weather Vane Oct 21 '23 at 21:04
  • Here are all the rhyme types: https://www.dailywritingtips.com/types-of-rhyme/ end, internal, slant, rich, identical and eye rhymes. Yours are all end rhymes. – Lambie Oct 21 '23 at 21:09
  • minimal pair is not a poetry definition. It's linguistics. – Lambie Oct 21 '23 at 21:24
  • @Lambie - That's confirmation that I should remove the word "poetic" then, thanks! – Malady Oct 21 '23 at 21:48
  • Yes. Initial clusters, like kl-, are called "Assonances", and verb + offset (like -əmp) are called "Rimes". The terms are due to Bolinger; further details here. – John Lawler Oct 21 '23 at 21:58
  • The Stack Overflow post you include uses the term "alliterative rhyme" – user3326047 Oct 24 '23 at 18:36
  • @user3326047 - Thanks for pointing that out! I guess that'd be the best I could do, and would accept that as a frame challenge! Although, it "alliterative rhyme scheme" being used to describe Beowulf and Piers Plowman muddy the definition of "alliterative rhyme". - https://journals.ysu.am/index.php/arm-fol-angl/article/view/Vol.10_No.1-2_2014_pp.054-062 – Malady Oct 24 '23 at 21:57
  • I suggest there is not, partly because only the first of those sets is a proper alliteration. – Robbie Goodwin Oct 28 '23 at 22:04

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