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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

... his art, is not the least of Voltaire's many excellences; and has secured for him, to all appearance permanently, if not the first, unquestionably the most popular place in the French theatre. But still his dramas do not represent nature. They are noble pieces of rhetoric put into rhyme. They are the ablest possible debate arrayed in the pomp of Alexandrine verse. But they do not touch the heart like a few words in Sophocles, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 • Various

... is Life is written in short trochaic verses of irregular length and with occasional rhyme. The idea was conceived early, the first act was written at the time of The Ancestress, and the title, though chosen late, being a reversal of Calderon's Life is a Dream, suggests the connection with that Spanish drama. Grillparzer's ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI. • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... nursery of the topical song. There, by lantern or candle-stump, wit Rabelaisian, Aristophanic or Antarctic was cradled into rhyme. From there, behind the scenes, the comedian in full dress could step before the footlights into salvoes of savage applause. "A Pair of Unconventional Cooks are we, are we," and the famous refrain, "There he is, that's him," ...

— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... the truth, I am not sure that too much prudent self-restraint suits love and its purport. Romance and deliberate self-control do not, to my mind, rhyme very well together. A touch of madness to begin with does no harm. Heaven knows life sobers it soon enough. If you don't start life with a head of ...

— Love--Marriage--Birth Control - Being a Speech delivered at the Church Congress at - Birmingham, October, 1921 • Bertrand Dawson

... be considered in the highest degree indecorous. But the German is still guileless enough to be satisfied with his station in life when it is sufficiently honourable and prosperous, and for this wedding two little nieces had prepared this card of samples and composed a rhyme for each ...

— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

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