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Definition of rhyme

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Rhyme (n.) 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..

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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..

Rhyme :: Rhyme (n.) To make rhymes, or verses..

Rhymed :: Rhymed (imp. & p. p.) of Rhym.

Feminine Rhyme :: Feminine rhyme () See Female rhyme, under Female, a..

Rhyme :: Rhyme (n.) A word answering in sound to another word.

Rime :: Rime (n.) Rhyme. See Rhyme.

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..

Rhymist :: Rhymist (n.) A rhymer; a rhymester.

Rhyme :: Rhyme (n.) Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes..

Improvvisatore :: Improvvisatore (n.) One who composes and sings or recites rhymes and short poems extemporaneously.

Crambo :: Crambo (a.) A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme..

Jingle :: "Jingle (n.) A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself..

Rime :: Rime (v. i. & t.) To rhyme. See Rhyme.

Clink :: Clink (v. i.) To rhyme. [Humorous].

Assonance :: Assonance (n.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary..

Virelay :: Virelay (n.) An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain..

Rhymery :: Rhymery (n.) The art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt.

Rondel :: Rondel (n.) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth..

Rhyme :: Rhyme (v. t.) To influence by rhyme.

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..