Why was that e there in the first place? It's not the end-of-word silent e that marks the previous vowel as long. If the e stayed fledgling would look like a three-syllable word.
Perhaps I am reading it wrong, but to my ear fledgling fails to rhyme with eggling because there's a "dg" instead of a "gg", and to me that's a different rhythm and sound.
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Date: 2021-06-26 04:40 pm (UTC)Perhaps I am reading it wrong, but to my ear fledgling fails to rhyme with eggling because there's a "dg" instead of a "gg", and to me that's a different rhythm and sound.
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Date: 2021-06-26 11:35 pm (UTC)