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Anyway enough of this! Lesson over this is supposed to be my down time.
Strictly speaking I suppose, ash and alder, even though both begin with the letter "a", do not start with the same vowel _sound_.
In terms of the vowel sounds, your explanation reminds me of the scene in 'Educating Rita' where she spots that it is indeed flawed in exactly the way you have and cleverly describes it as 'rhyme for poets who can't rhyme' or something to very similar effect. Frank responds, that that's as may be but 'it is one of those things that just is'. I always did like that scene.
Perhaps you'd point me at some grown-up definitions? What Frank in Educating Rita uses as an example of assonance in the Yeats poem is actually consonance. So neatly illustrating that teachers can sometimes get things wrong.
All 'adult' definitions are above and will stand at a-level and degree level. I'm presuming from your response that you too have some level of extended literature study, as you wouldn't have got involved with this discussion, it's too pedantic (certainly feels like a day at work)? Either that or you are argumentative of course. However if you do want to cross check, grab yourself a copy of the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms -I always recommend it to my students and you will find that I am neither trying to misinform or being unnecessarily argumentative, but that I do speak the truth.
Clearly my memory was off on Ed R, (although I will grab a copy and cross check it tomorrow) which absolutely proves that we all get things wrong sometimes, but that surely is the beauty of learning and why so many of us (especially teachers) spend time arguing on and off forums!
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ps - you just need to change the image URL dl=0 to raw=1
Havent seen the raw=1 before. How does that affect it? I know dl=1 turns it to a download link.
Thanks @stand_made - really appreciate the kind words.
And no, unfortunately. I'm not in a position to approach any shows yet (too damn expensive) but in time - hopefully next year - I'll put in for that and the Birmingham show.
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