6. Write down these rhymes. Observe the regular alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables according to the given stress tone marks. Make up tonograms '
Jack and
'
Jill went
up the
͵
hill.
To
'
fetch a
'
pail of
ˎ
water.
'
Jack fell
͵
down and
'
broke his
͵
crown,
And
'
Jill came
'
tumbling
ˎ
after.
***
'
Twinkle,
'
twinkle,
'
little
͵
star,
'
How I
'
wonder
'
what you
ˎ
are.
'
Up a
'
bove the
'
world so
͵
high
'
Like a
'
diamond
'
in the
ˎ
sky.
***
In
'
winter
'
I get up at
ˎ
night
And
'
dress by
'
yellow
`
candle
׀
light.
In
'
summer
quite the
'
other
ˎ
way
I
'
have to
'
go to
'
bed by
ˎ
day.
7. Write down these extracts. Mark the stresses and tunes. Transcribe them Blood and flood are not like food
Nor it mould like should and would
Banquet is not nearly parquet
Which is said to rhyme with “darky”.
Rounded, wounded; grieve and sleeve
Friend and fiend; alive and live;
Liberty, library; heave and heaven
Rachel, ache, moustach, slaven.
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We say hallowed but allowed
People, leopard; towed but vowed
Mark the difference moreover
Between mover, plover, Dover
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise;
Challice, but police and lice.