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Subject: Re: (Tiger Tiger by Wm.Blake) -- [Authentic] pronunciation (recording) --
 EYE-Symmetry Rhyme
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Peter Moylan wrote:

> On 14/04/24 05:06, Kyonshi wrote:
>> On 2/21/2024 4:24 AM, HenHanna wrote:
>>> HenHanna wrote:
>>>
>>>> (The Tyger by William Blake) -- Could someone point me towards an
>>>>  [Authentic] pronunciation version (recording, commentary) which
>>>> makes EYE rhyme with Symmetry?

> "Eye" is one of those words whose pronunciation varied with dialect.
> Etymonline tells me that there is still a modern dialect in which the
> plural is "een". It's not too difficult to imagine the word being
> pronounced "ee" at some place and time.

The first word that Sir Partick read
Sae loud, loud laucht he;
The neist word that Sir Patrick read
The tear blindit his ee.

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sir-patrick-spens/


STS warning:

Her brow is like the snow-drift,
Her throat is like the swan,
Her face it is the fairest,
That 'er the sun shone on.
That 'er the sun shone on -
And dark blue is her e'e,
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I'd lay me down and dee.

Though a Scots pronunciation doesn't tell you anything about Shakespeare.

-- 
Jerry Friedman