Definition of rhyme

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Rhyme (n.) An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language..

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Rhyme :: Rhyme (v. t.) To put into rhyme.
Warling :: Warling (n.) One often quarreled with; -- / word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with darling..
Rimer :: Rimer (n.) A rhymer; a versifier.
Rondeau :: Rondeau (n.) A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule..
Stanza :: Stanza (n.) A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure..
Sonnet :: Sonnet (n.) A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule..
Rhymist :: Rhymist (n.) A rhymer; a rhymester.
Scald :: Scald (a.) Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers..
Poetaster :: Poetaster (n.) An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art..
Virelay :: Virelay (n.) An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain..
Troubadour :: Troubadour (n.) One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain..
Rhyme :: Rhyme (n.) Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes..
Rhymer :: Rhymer (n.) One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster.
Runic :: Runic (a.) Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme..
Rimey :: Rimey (v. t.) To compose in rhyme; to versify.
Villanelle :: Villanelle (n.) A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close..
Jig :: "Jig (n.) A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad..
Poem :: Poem (n.) A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton..
Rhymed :: Rhymed (imp. & p. p.) of Rhym.
Rime :: Rime (v. i. & t.) To rhyme. See Rhyme.
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