old vowels

[Lynne Murphy]

I need some HEL help...

I'd like to use the following as examples of rhymes that have strong
consonant matches but weak vowel matches, but want first to make sure
that the vowels weren't the same when the poem was written.

>
>       Alexander Pope's Duncidad (1728), Book I, lines 147-48:
>       But, high, above, more solid Learning shone,
>       The Classics of an Age that heard of none;
>
>       or from the same poem lines 271-272:
>       Here stood her Opium, here she nurs'd her Owls,
>       And here she plann'd th' Imperial seat of Fools.

So, did "owl" and "fool" have the same vowel for Pope?  (I'd think
not, but just checking...)  And "shone" and "none"?

Thanks in advance,
Lynne
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M. Lynne Murphy
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