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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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Bouts-rimes :: Bouts-rimes (n. pl.) Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered..

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

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..

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..

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

Doggerel :: Doggerel (a.) Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes..

Couplet :: Couplet (n.) Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.

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

Rimey :: Rimey (v. t.) To compose in rhyme; to versify.

Assonant :: Assonant (a.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.

Ballade :: Ballade (n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy..

Rhyme :: Rhyme (n.) To accord in rhyme or sound.

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

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..

Runic :: Runic (a.) Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme..

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

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

Warling :: Warling (n.) One often quarreled with; -- / word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with darling..

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