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rhyme

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rhyme also rime  (rm)
n.
1. Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.
2.
a. A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.
b. Poetry or verse of this kind.
3. A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold.
v. rhymed also rimed, rhym·ing also rim·ing, rhymes also rimes
v.intr.
1. To form a rhyme.
2. To compose rhymes or verse.
3. To make use of rhymes in composing verse.
v.tr.
1. To put into rhyme or compose with rhymes.
2. To use (a word or words) as a rhyme.

[Alteration (influenced by rhythm) of Middle English rime, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]

rhyme
Noun
1. sameness of the final sounds in lines of verse or in words
2. a word that is identical to another in its final sound: `while' is a rhyme for `mile'
3. a piece of poetry with corresponding sounds at the ends of the lines
4. rhyme or reason sense or meaning
Verb
[rhyming, rhymed]
1. (of a word) to form a rhyme with another word
2. to compose (verse) in a metrical structure [Old French rime; spelling influenced by rhythm]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.rhymerhyme - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
versification - the form or metrical composition of a poem
internal rhyme - a rhyme between words in the same line
alliteration, beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme - use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"
assonance, vowel rhyme - the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
consonance, consonant rhyme - the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
double rhyme - a two-syllable rhyme; "`ended' and `blended' form a double rhyme"
eye rhyme - an imperfect rhyme (e.g., `love' and `move')
2.rhymerhyme - a piece of poetry
poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
clerihew - a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person; "`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew"
doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle - a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"
limerick - a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
Verb1.rhyme - compose rhymes
poesy, poetry, verse - literature in metrical form
create verbally - create with or from words
tag - supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes
alliterate - use alliteration as a form of poetry
2.rhyme - be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme"
correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally, agree, fit, check - be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"
assonate - correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance; "The accented vowels assonated in this poem"

rhyme
noun poem, song, verse, ode rhyme or reason (used in negative constructions) sense, meaning, plan, planning, system, method, pattern, logic
Translations
Spanish rhyme [raɪm] nrima (= verse); poesía
vi to rhyme (with) → rimar (con);
without rhyme or reason → sin ton ni son

French rhyme [raɪm] nrime f (= verse); vers mpl
vi to rhyme (with) → rimer (avec);
without rhyme or reason → sans rime ni raison

German rhyme [raɪm] nReim m;
(verse) → Verse pl
vi to rhyme (with) → sich reimen (mit);
without rhyme or reason → ohne Sinn und Verstand

Italian rhyme [raɪm] nrima (= verse); poesia
vi to rhyme (with) → fare rima (con);
without rhyme or reason → senza capocoda

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Only the even lines rhyme, except in the four-line or stop-short poem, when the first line often rhymes with the second and fourth, curiously recalling the Rubaiyat form of the Persian poets.
Anglo-Saxon poetry depended for its pleasantness to the ear, not on rhyme as does ours, but on accent and alliteration.
Rhyme and metre and structure were serious enough in themselves, but there was, over and beyond them, an intangible and evasive something that he caught in all great poetry, but which he could not catch and imprison in his own.
 
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