"Genuine" doesn't rhyme with "wine".
@Pat My annoyance with the English language is that it's bloody hard to figure out as a non-English deaf person which words rhyme with which because it can be spelled totally different and yet sound similar.
@trinsec
There are supposed to be a bunch of rules about pronunciation in English. When the word ends in "e", the vowel in that last syllable is supposed to be long, which would make genuine rhyme with "wine". But there's another rule that says when two vowels appear next to each other, the first vowel is the one that dominates, so maybe that rule for "ui" effected the "e" rule.
In any case, those rules seem to have exceptions with half the words anyways, so they're not very useful. I use a good English dictionary with well-researched pronunciation guidance. For "genuine", it indicates that the "wine" pronunciation is occasional among educated speakers, but considered incorrect or substandard by most experts.
@Pat Simply put, I wouldn't know how to pronounce 90% of the English words. So, if they can sound similar while having very different spellings, or sound very different while having similar spellings, it's near impossible for me to make an English poem.
@Pat
Does if you pronounce it jen-you-wine 8)