'Bat and 'cat' rhyme.
'Side' and 'hide' rhyme.
'Hit' and 'sit' rhyme.
They all rhymed with real nouns which take the usual case endings, and hence could be easily accommodated in the inflectional paradigms of the language.
Yet the tonal dissonances curb the polysemantic potential of rhyming equivalences by discouraging any association between easily rhymed words.
One musical feature of the later rhymed offices is of particular interest.
This and other musical features make the division between prose and rhymed offices seem rather artifical from the musical point of view.
Words and nonwords were scored as correct as long as they rhymed with the target word.
