Which option is the best example of slant rhyme?
A. I attest that the chest is the best in the West.
B. We are all educated. / We all read books every day.
C. Folks sit in their chairs, and show us their stares.
D. She’s picking peaches. / She’s digging ditches.
Answer: D. She’s picking peaches. / She’s digging ditches.
Slight rhyme, also known as broken rhyme or half-rhyme, is when two words have similar sounds but the vowels are not specifically matching while the consonant sounds match. I see her picking peaches, for she was acting like tasting the fruit. / Digging ditches,” rhymes “peaches” and “ditches,” referencing the song “another way to die”—quotes from the song “another way to die” that use the same slant rhyme.
In “peaches”, there is the vowel sound of (-ea-) and (-ch-) consonant sound but in “ditches”, it is (-i-) which is a different vowel sound. However, declaring both the words to be homophones can be wrong because both of them have different meanings when found to be used together. Such a result leads to a rhyme that is both subtle and imperfect but it still is less strict than a perfect rhyme, and brought more melodicness and harmony to the lines.
Slant rhymes attract notice of the audience, since they are so smooth and fine with the sound of poems. It also allows to make poem more adaptable to its sound scheme which will draw more attention from the listener or reader.