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		mcguire on July 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, c... `Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?`

kelipso on July 3, 2024 [–]

If you're alluding to the pronunciation of symmetry, I'm pretty sure eye and symmetry was specifically meant not to rhyme in order to throw off the reader slightly. Guess that hints at how difficult recovery of pronunciation can be.

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