"'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that……" — James Fenton

'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like… - James Fenton
"'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while."

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