Definition of rhyme

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

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Rhyme :: Rhyme (n.) A word answering in sound to another word.
Jig :: "Jig (n.) A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad..
Monorhyme :: Monorhyme (n.) A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme..
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..
Virelay :: Virelay (n.) An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain..
Rhyme :: Rhyme (n.) To accord in rhyme or sound.
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..
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..
Feminine Rhyme :: Feminine rhyme () See Female rhyme, under Female, a..
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..
Jingle :: "Jingle (n.) A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself..
Crambo :: Crambo (a.) A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme..
Rhime :: Rhime (n.) See Rhyme.
Jingle :: Jingle (v. i.) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
Rhymic :: Rhymic (a.) Pertaining to rhyme.
Rhymery :: Rhymery (n.) The art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt.
Improvvisatore :: Improvvisatore (n.) One who composes and sings or recites rhymes and short poems extemporaneously.
Assonant :: Assonant (a.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.
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..
Rime :: Rime (n.) Rhyme. See Rhyme.
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