The rhymes in this section have the ‘ower’ sound of hour and towering as their main or final vowel sound.
31.1 bower, cower, dour, dower, flour, flower, glower, Gower, hour, lour, our, power, scour, shower, sour, Stour, tower, * half-hour, Glendower, deflower, empower, devour, * man-hour, manpower, brainpower, mayflower, Mayflower, plain flour, watchtower, bell tower, willpower, windflower, fire power, horsepower, wallflower, cornflour, cornflower, sunflower, rush-hour, moonflower, * candlepower, passionflower, Adenauer, staying power, Beckenbauer, elderflower, Penmaenmawr, sweet-and-sour, disempower, gillyflower, Eisenhower, Schopenhauer, cauliflower, overpower, superpower, * ivory tower, self-raising flour, kilowatt-hour
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN
31.2 coward, Coward, cowered, flowered, glowered, Howard, loured, powered, scoured, showered, soured, towered, * deflowered, empowered, devoured, * Frankie Howerd, Castle Howard, overpowered, solar-powered, Noël Coward, underpowered
31.3 [see also] bowel, Cowal, Cowell, dowel, Dowell, Howell, Hywel, Powell, rowel, towel, trowel, vowel, * McDowell, avowal, * Baden-Powell, semivowel, Enoch Powell, disavowal, disembowel
31.4 bowels, Howells, towels, vowels, etc.
31.5 flowers, hours, ours, Powers, showers, towers, * Alton Towers, Fawlty Towers, superpowers, etc.
Here the youthful Giorgione gazed upon the domes and towers,
And interpreted his era in a way which pleases ours.
JOHN BETJEMAN
32.1 dourly, hourly, sourly, cowardly, bowery, Bowery, dowry, floury, flowery, showery
32.2 flowerer, scourer, * devourer, * shower her, empower her, etc.
32.3 cowering, flowering, glowering, louring, powering, scouring, showering, towering, dowelling, towelling, * deflowering, empowering, devouring, * overpowering, etc.