Definition of rhyme

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

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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..
Rimer :: Rimer (n.) A rhymer; a versifier.
Rhymist :: Rhymist (n.) A rhymer; a rhymester.
Rime :: Rime (v. i. & t.) To rhyme. See Rhyme.
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..
Poetaster :: Poetaster (n.) An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art..
Rhime :: Rhime (n.) See Rhyme.
Jingle :: Jingle (v. i.) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
Rhyme :: Rhyme (v. t.) To influence by rhyme.
Couplet :: Couplet (n.) Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.
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..
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..
Virelay :: Virelay (n.) An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain..
Warling :: Warling (n.) One often quarreled with; -- / word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with darling..
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..
Rhyme :: Rhyme (n.) To make rhymes, or verses..
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 (v. t.) To put into 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..
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