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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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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..

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

Versemonger :: Versemonger (n.) A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt..

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..

Rhymer :: Rhymer (n.) One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster.

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..

Rhime :: Rhime (n.) See Rhyme.

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

Rhymic :: Rhymic (a.) Pertaining to 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..

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

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

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

Jig :: "Jig (n.) A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad..

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

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

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

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

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..