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Rhyme :: 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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Rhyme :: Rhyme (n.) An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language..

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

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

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..

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