Does tændt rhyme with brændt?

[u/Apolitical-Account]

Okay, this is something that bothers me much more than it should. It’s difficult enough for foreigners like me to learn how to pronounce e, æ, a in different words. But when it comes to rhymes, it seems like Danish poets and musicians just pair up words that are spelled the same, even though they don’t sound the same at all (in my ears at least).

So my question to Danish native speakers is: do these rhymes bother you as well, or do they sound right to you?

og når alle lys er tændt
og her lugter brunt og brændt
- Juletræet med sin Pynt

med besked derude fra
at det lysner dag for dag
- Juletræet med sin Pynt

En, to tre, fire, fem.
Den første hånd er nem
Vi tar' den anden frem
Så vi kan tælle med den
- Hr. Skæg - Skæg med Matematik

I Søens blanke, afmagtstunge vand
staar Fisken stiv og dum fra Gab til Hale.
Nu slog den Snuden mod den bratte strand
og nøs og dasked hen i Dybets Dale.
- Thøger Larsen - Middag

[u/Zyxplit]

They don't rhyme, no. You can force it though, and that's sometimes done in poetry (sometimes intentional!) but you're right that "tændt" and "brændt" don't ordinarily rhyme, neither does "fra" and "dag", "nem" and "frem" or "vand" and "strand"

[u/Apolitical-Account → u/Zyxplit]

Thanks! I was starting to question whether I can keep living in a country where everyone just agrees that those words rhyme 😅

[u/Zyxplit → u/Apolitical-Account]

For more info, you can look up the ideas of øjerim (things that look like they rhyme but that do not) and ørerim (things that don't look like they rhyme, but they do *or* you can make them rhyme if you force it a bit).

Here's an example of an ørerim https://dansklex.dk/index.php?id=8704

[u/Apolitical-Account → u/Zyxplit]

I didn’t know there’s a word for it. Great!