rhyme

• WordNet 3.6
  • v rhyme compose rhymes
  • v rhyme be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable "hat and cat rhyme"
  • n rhyme a piece of poetry
  • n rhyme correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
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• Interesting fact: No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver or purple
• • Rhyme A word answering in sound to another word.
  • Rhyme 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 ."
  • Rhyme (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."
  • Rhyme To accord in rhyme or sound. "And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well."
  • Rhyme To influence by rhyme. "Hearken to a verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good."
  • Rhyme 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."
  • Rhyme To put into rhyme.
  • Rhyme Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.
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• Interesting fact: Nothing rhymes with the word 'month'
• • n rhyme etc. See rime, etc.
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• Interesting fact: The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosy is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosy..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")
• • n Rhyme rīm the recurrence of similar sounds at certain intervals:
  • v.i Rhyme to correspond in sound: to harmonise: to chime: to make rhymes or verses
  • v.t Rhyme to put into rhyme
  • n Rhyme rīm (orig.) words arranged in numbers or verse: poetry: metre: a short poem
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• Francois De La Rochefoucauld

  

  “Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.”
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  

  “Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.”
• Hilaire Belloc

  

  “I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.”
• Stephane Mallarme

  

  “The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.”
• Scottish Proverb

  

  “Prayer and practice is good rhyme.”
• Nicholas Boileau

  

  “Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.”

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