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Rhyme   /raɪm/   Listen
noun
Rhyme  n.  
1.
An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language. "Railing rhymes." "A ryme I learned long ago." "He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime."
2.
(Pros.) 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. "For rhyme with reason may dispense, And sound has right to govern sense."
3.
Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.
4.
A word answering in sound to another word.
Female rhyme. See under Female.
Male rhyme. See under Male.
Rhyme or reason, sound or sense.
Rhyme royal (Pros.), a stanza of seven decasyllabic verses, of which the first and third, the second, fourth, and fifth, and the sixth and seventh rhyme.


verb
Rhyme  v. t.  
1.
To put into rhyme.
2.
To influence by rhyme. "Hearken to a verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good."


Rhyme  v. i.  (past & past part. rhymed;pres. part. rhyming)  
1.
To make rhymes, or verses. "Thou shalt no longer ryme." "There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride."
2.
To accord in rhyme or sound. "And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well."





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"Rhyme" Quotes from Famous Books



... understand the reckless exulting of some wild character, who, baffled with this miserable mendicancy everywhere, at length discovered the idea that God was not an invalid. He was probably too much excited to perfect his rhyme, and so ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 • Various
... for a man who wandered much and had a rhyme for everyone—a kindly man with a reputation for laziness and without ...
— Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country • Irving Bacheller
... attorney in the suit, who has obligingly placed the learned serjeant's notes at my disposal. This gentleman says: "These notes are in the margin of a brief held by the serjeant as leading counsel in an action of ejectment brought against a person named Rock, in 1842. In converting into rhyme the evidence of the witness Hopkins, as set out in the brief, he has adhered strictly to the statements, whilst he has at the same time seized the prominent points of the testimony ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 • Various
... popular music in the open air. The theatres play translations of French plays, which are pretty good when they are in prose, and pretty dismal when they are turned into verse, as is more frequent, for the Spanish mind delights in the jingle of rhyme. The fine old Spanish drama is vanishing day by day. The masterpieces of Lope and Calderon, which inspired all subsequent playwriting in Europe, have sunk almost utterly into oblivion. The stage is flooded with the washings of the Boulevards. Bad as the translations are, ...
— Castilian Days • John Hay
... of Blake? No. He was on the right road; but he was a writer of verses! Art is a jealous mistress, Mr. Aylwin: the painter who rhymes is lost. Even the master himself is so much the weaker by every verse he has written. I never could make a rhyme in my life, and have faithfully shunned printer's ink, the black blight of the painter. I am my own school; the school of ...
— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton


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