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Rhyme   /raɪm/   Listen
noun
Rhyme  n.  
1.
An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language. "Railing rhymes." "A ryme I learned long ago." "He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime."
2.
(Pros.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any. "For rhyme with reason may dispense, And sound has right to govern sense."
3.
Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.
4.
A word answering in sound to another word.
Female rhyme. See under Female.
Male rhyme. See under Male.
Rhyme or reason, sound or sense.
Rhyme royal (Pros.), a stanza of seven decasyllabic verses, of which the first and third, the second, fourth, and fifth, and the sixth and seventh rhyme.


verb
Rhyme  v. t.  
1.
To put into rhyme.
2.
To influence by rhyme. "Hearken to a verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good."


Rhyme  v. i.  (past & past part. rhymed;pres. part. rhyming)  
1.
To make rhymes, or verses. "Thou shalt no longer ryme." "There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride."
2.
To accord in rhyme or sound. "And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well."





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"Rhyme" Quotes from Famous Books



... middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme." ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck
... considerable skill as the Icelanders are the only nation that has preserved the ancient common Germanic alliteration (found in all Germanic poetry till late medieval times). We frequently find this device accompanied by highly complicated rhyme schemes. Despite this rather rigid form, restrictive perhaps, yet disciplinary in its effect, exquisite poetry has nevertheless been produced. This poetry, however, is not within the scope of this introduction. ...
— Seven Icelandic Short Stories • Various
... midland counties, but was taken prisoner at Coventry and executed in the presence of Richard II. on the 15th of July 1381. Ball, who was called by Froissart "the mad priest of Kent," seems to have possessed the gift of rhyme. He undoubtedly voiced the feelings of the lower orders of ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various
... a well-known society woman, sold bread and laundered the gentlemen's ties. She also presented a report in rhyme at the 'pledge meeting' on last Tuesday night. One item ...
— The Gospel Day • Charles Ebert Orr
... is drawn by a master hand: the master is laid by for a season; or, as Bunyan quaintly expresses it, 'a little a to side': when raised from affliction earthly affairs absorb his attention, and he forgets his good resolves. According to the old rhyme:— ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan


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