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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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Jingle :: Jingle (v. i.) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.

Rhymeless :: Rhymeless (a.) Destitute of rhyme.

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..

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

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

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..

Poetry :: Poetry (n.) Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry..

Female Rhymes :: Female rhymes () double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line..

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..

Rhymester :: Rhymester (n.) A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry.

Scald :: Scald (a.) Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers..

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

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..

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

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

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

Monorhyme :: Monorhyme (n.) A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme..

Berime :: Berime (v. t.) To berhyme.

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

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