megan and bacon. do they rhyme?
the way i look at it is, either something rhymes, or it doesn’t… but according to the poll i have on my page, it looks like i’m wrong.
51% are saying yes, while the other 49% (obviously) are disagreeing.
what do you guys think?
oh, and it’s like MAYgan, not MEEgan.
“human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” - albert einstein
Test it. Write a limerick.
There was a young lady named Megan
Whose tastes ran to schnitzels and bacon
When they asked “Are they nice?”
She replied “Pass the rice,
Before J.S. Bach’s sleepers waken.”
No. No, they don’t.
Uke
In 12th grade English we learned about masculine and feminine rhymes. Masculine rhymes are words that (to my mind anyway) actually rhyme, like “greeneggsandHAM” and “SamiAM”, or “withaGOAT” and “inaBOAT”. Feminine rhymes, however, are something poets came up with back in the day when they couldn’t come up with an actual rhyme that made sense in their context, yet they still couldn’t break away from the dreaded Iambic Pentameter. In the feminine rhyming sense, Megan and Bacon could rhyme, although why you’d want them to is beyond me.
The name of my fair lovely lass is Megan,
I think of her when’ere I smell the Bacon.
AFAIK, there are two types of rhymes, a perfect syllable match, and an ending sound match. This would be the latter, but not the former. But, as a poet… I’ll allow it.
http://www.madpoet.com
Computers have let mankind make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns.
Why don’t ya try "beggin’ ", yes, that works…
Now, the phrase “Makin’ Bacon” does rhyme. 
I looked in the mirror today/My eyes just didn’t seem so bright
I’ve lost a few more hairs/I think I’m going bald - Rush
True, AWB…and “Makin’ Megan” definitely does NOT. Although it’s fun to say.
I thought a feminine rhyme was when the last two syllables rhyme, but the last syllable isn’t accented. A masculine rhyme is when the last syllable is accented, in which case only the last syllable need rhyme.
So:
Agree and degree rhyme (masculinely)
Bolton and molten rhyme (femininely)
Bolton and Upton do not rhyme (or else they rhyme asexually?)
Megan and bacon are both accented on their first syllable, so they only rhmye if “Meg” rhymes with “bake”. Or something.
Any similarity in the above text to an English word or phrase is purely coincidental.
missdavis102:
Actually, unless my knowledge of prosody has failed me completely, you’re confusing masculine/feminine rhyme with slant rhyme.
Slant rhyme is when the rhyme words almost rhyme, but don’t exactly.
Masculine rhyme is when the the rhyme is on a stressed syllable at the end of a word, e.g. “ask” and “task”.
Feminine rhyme is when the rhyme involves an unaccented final syllable, usually one that forms a suffix or other grammatical marker, e.g. “planning” and “spanning”.
i don’t know, when i read that, to me they sound quite similar… and i figure that constitutes some sort of rhyme…
and as for:
“human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” - albert einstein
I stand corrected. Twelfth grade was a long time ago. Click this link and you can see definitions for many different types of rhymes: masculine, feminine, disylabic, mosaic, etc. More about rhyming than I ever wanted to know.
http://shoga.wwa.com/~rgs/glossary.html
You have to admit my couplet was pretty fair, though.
ok, thought i’d weigh in here…(see that i’m taking a course in poetry this term…)pulling out of the textbook…
The Norton Anthology Of Poetry.
“Rhyme words in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable-chiming/rhyming- are known as Feminine rhymes.” The most common, just as with masculine rhyme, are single feminine rhymes-in which the last(unstressed) syllable is the one that rhymes-just as per your example. Ones in which the stressed syllable also rhymes-assuming here trochaic or iambic meters-are double feminine rhymes…and so on up to such odd ones as quadruple rhyme (think " I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General")
But in answer to your question, yes, megan and bacon do rhyme. However I don’t think you could use them in a limerick-sorry Ike, but they’re both trochaic and it don’t scan.
Maybe Megan is from Macon, where they fry their bacon…?
And if i’m not mistaken they may be makin bacon in Macon with Megan and Reagan and Donald Fagan and Carl Sagan.
If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully–as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
Peter and Burn:
Cut that out, or I may limerick again…
Uke
Seeing as how I pronounce my name “Megan,” as in “beggin’” or “eggin’” but NOT “May-gan” or “Mee-gan,” this thread is giving me a headache.
Sucks to your assmar.
actually it is like beggin… 
i was just trying to clarify that it wasn’t meeeegan. that just makes me shudder.
“human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” - albert einstein