Nearly all that is important about rhyme has already been said under the head of Phonology. We may here remark on some of the instances in which the form of words is accommodated to the rhyme, these being sometimes cases where variants are supplied by neighbouring dialects. Thus we have _aise_ for _ese_, _ar_ for _er_, _hair_ for _heir_, _naght_ once for _noght_, _fer_ once for _fyr_, _hade_, with the original long vowel, for _hadde_, _geth_ (the originally correct form) for _goth_, _fore_ for _for_; and alternatives such as _moneie monoie_, _aweie awey away_, _seide saide_, _soverein soverain_, are used in accordance with the rhyme, though it is difficult to say for certain in all cases whether there was difference of sound. Thus, while we have _away_ as rhyme to _day_, _awey_ is found rhyming to _ey_, i. 2545, _said_, _saide_ rhyming with _paid_, _Maide_, while _seide_ rhymes with _alleide_, _obeide_; we find _soverein_ : _aȝein_, but _brayn_ : _soverain_. The form _yhe_ often varies to _ÿe_ when in rhyme with _-ie_ termination, as _clergie_ : _ÿe_, Prol. 329 f., _ÿe_ : _agonie_, i. 967 f. (but also _yhe_ : _pourpartie_, i. 405 f., _yhe_ : _specefie_, i. 571 f.). Sometimes however the other rhyme-word is modified to correspond to it, as _pryhe_ : _yhe_, v. 469 f., and there was probably no perceptible difference of pronunciation in this case. So also the preterite _lowh_ is written _low_ when in rhyme with _now_, Prol. 1071, and similarly _thou_ : _ynou_, vii. 2099 f. (but _bowe_ : _ynowhe_, ii. 3225 f.). We have already seen that the use of such alternative forms as _sinne senne_, _wile wole_, _lasse lesse_, _hedde hidde_, _-ende -inge_ is sometimes determined by the rhyme. Alliteration is used by Gower in a manner which is especially characteristic of the new artistic style of poetry. It is sufficiently frequent, both in formal combinations, such as ‘cares colde,’ ‘lusty lif,’ ‘park and plowh,’ ‘swerd or spere,’ ‘lief and loth,’ ‘wel or wo,’ ‘dike and delve,’ ‘slepe softe,’ ‘spille ... spede,’ and as an element of the versification: i. 886 f. ‘For so, thei seide, al stille and softe God Anubus hire wolde awake.’ iv. 2590 ‘The lost is had, the lucre is lore.’ iv. 3384 f. ‘Which many a man hath mad to falle, Wher that he mihte nevere arise.’ v. 3670 f. ‘And thanne he gan to sighe sore, And sodeinliche abreide of slep.’ vii. 3468 f. ‘Sche hath hir oghne bodi feigned, For feere as thogh sche wolde flee.’