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rhyme

also rime (rīm)

1. Correspondence of sounds at the ends of words or phrases, especially when involving the last stressed vowel and all succeeding sounds in each of two or more such words or phrases.

2. A word that exhibits such correspondence with another, as behold and cold.

a. A poem or verse employing such correspondence as a formal feature, especially at the ends of lines.

b. Poetry or verse of this kind.

v. rhymed, rhym·ing, rhymes also rimed or rim·ing or rimes

v.intr.

1. To form a rhyme.

2. To compose rhymes or verse.

3. To make use of rhymes in composing verse.

v.tr.

1. To put into rhyme or compose with rhymes.

2. To use (a word or words) as a rhyme.

[Alteration (influenced by rhythm) of Middle English rime, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]

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rhyme

(raɪm) or archaic

rime

1. (Poetry) identity of the terminal sounds in lines of verse or in words

2. (Poetry) a word that is identical to another in its terminal sound: "while" is a rhyme for "mile".

3. (Poetry) a verse or piece of poetry having corresponding sounds at the ends of the lines: the boy made up a rhyme about his teacher.

4. (Poetry) any verse or piece of poetry

5. rhyme or reason sense, logic, or meaning: this proposal has no rhyme or reason.

6. (Poetry) to use (a word) or (of a word) to be used so as to form a rhyme; be or make identical in sound

7. (Poetry) to render (a subject) into rhyme

8. (Poetry) to compose (verse) in a metrical structure

[C12: from Old French rime, from rimer to rhyme, from Old High German rīm a number; spelling influenced by rhythm]

ˈrhymeless, ˈrimeless adj

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rhyme

(raɪm)

n., v. rhymed, rhym•ing. n.

1. identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse.

2. a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and kind.

3. verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines.

4. a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence.

v.t.

5. to treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose.

6. to compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes.

7. to use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes.

v.i.

8. to make rhyme or verse.

9. to use rhyme in writing verse.

10. to form a rhyme, as one word or line with another.

11. to be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse.

Idioms:

rhyme or reason, logic, sense, or method (usu. used in the negative): These decisions seem to be made without rhyme or reason. There was no rhyme or reason for what they did.

[1250–1300; Middle English rime < Old French, derivative of rimer to rhyme < Gallo-Romance *rimāre to put in a row < Frankish; compare Old High German rīm series, row; current sp. (from c1600) appar. by association with rhythm]

rhym′er, n.

rhyme

assonance - The condition of the words of a phrase or verse having the same sound or termination without rhyming.
blank verse - A verse without rhyme.
rhyme - From Latin rhythmus, "rhythm," from Greek rhein, "to flow."
rhyme or reason - A phrase derived from French ni rime ni raison.

rhyme

Past participle: rhymed
Gerund: rhyming

Imperative
rhyme
rhyme

Present
I rhyme
you rhyme
he/she/it rhymes
we rhyme
you rhyme
they rhyme

Preterite
I rhymed
you rhymed
he/she/it rhymed
we rhymed
you rhymed
they rhymed

Present Continuous
I am rhyming
you are rhyming
he/she/it is rhyming
we are rhyming
you are rhyming
they are rhyming

Present Perfect
I have rhymed
you have rhymed
he/she/it has rhymed
we have rhymed
you have rhymed
they have rhymed

Past Continuous
I was rhyming
you were rhyming
he/she/it was rhyming
we were rhyming
you were rhyming
they were rhyming

Past Perfect
I had rhymed
you had rhymed
he/she/it had rhymed
we had rhymed
you had rhymed
they had rhymed

Future
I will rhyme
you will rhyme
he/she/it will rhyme
we will rhyme
you will rhyme
they will rhyme

Future Perfect
I will have rhymed
you will have rhymed
he/she/it will have rhymed
we will have rhymed
you will have rhymed
they will have rhymed

Future Continuous
I will be rhyming
you will be rhyming
he/she/it will be rhyming
we will be rhyming
you will be rhyming
they will be rhyming

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been rhyming
you have been rhyming
he/she/it has been rhyming
we have been rhyming
you have been rhyming
they have been rhyming

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been rhyming
you will have been rhyming
he/she/it will have been rhyming
we will have been rhyming
you will have been rhyming
they will have been rhyming

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been rhyming
you had been rhyming
he/she/it had been rhyming
we had been rhyming
you had been rhyming
they had been rhyming

Conditional
I would rhyme
you would rhyme
he/she/it would rhyme
we would rhyme
you would rhyme
they would rhyme

Past Conditional
I would have rhymed
you would have rhymed
he/she/it would have rhymed
we would have rhymed
you would have rhymed
they would have rhymed

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rhyme

Similarity in the sound of endings of different words, especially vowels of the last stressed syllables (and any which follow them). Masculine rhymes stress the last syllable, feminine do not; imperfect rhymes have vowels which do not quite match; identical use the same word, often with different meaning; eye rhymes look but do not sound the same (though in old poems this may be due to a change in pronunciation); internal rhymes are when a word within a line rhymes with its last word.

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Noun	1.	rhyme - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) rime poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines versification - the form or metrical composition of a poem internal rhyme - a rhyme between words in the same line alliteration, beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme - use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran" assonance, vowel rhyme - the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words consonance, consonant rhyme - the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words double rhyme - a two-syllable rhyme; "`ended' and `blended' form a double rhyme" eye rhyme - an imperfect rhyme (e.g., `love' and `move')
	2.	rhyme - a piece of poetry verse poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines clerihew - a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person; "`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew" doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle - a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" limerick - a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
Verb	1.	rhyme - compose rhymes rime poesy, poetry, verse - literature in metrical form create verbally - create with or from words tag - supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes alliterate - use alliteration as a form of poetry
	2.	rhyme - be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme" rime correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally, agree, fit, check - be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" assonate - correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance; "The accented vowels assonated in this poem"

rhyme

noun

1. poem, song, verse, ode, ditty, piece of poetry, metrical composition He has taught her a little rhyme.

rhyme or reason (usually in negative construction) sense, meaning, plan, planning, system, method, pattern, logic He picked people without rhyme or reason.

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rhyme

noun

A poetic work or poetic works:

poem, poesy, poetry, verse.

Translations

قافيةقافِيَهقصيده قَصيرَهيَتَوافَق بالقافِيَه، يَتَقَفّى

říkankarýmrýmovačkarýmované veršerýmovat

rimrimevers

rímrímel

rímarímaîur kveîskapurvísa

rima rimare verso mettere in rima poesia

eilėraštukasrimasrimuotas žodisrimuotisrimuotos eilės

atskaņabūt atskaņaidzejolis ar atskaņāmdzejolītispantiņš

riekankarým

rimarimati sepesmica

kafiye uyakkafiyeli olmakkafiyeli şiir/nesirkısa şiir

与...押韵同韵词押韵押韵的短诗

rhyme

[raɪm]

A. N

1. (= identical sound) → rima f
without rhyme or reason → sin ton ni son

2. (= poem) → poesía f, versos mpl
in rhyme → en verso

B. VI → rimar
to rhyme with sth → rimar con algo

C. VT → rimar

D. CPD rhyme scheme N → esquema m de la rima, combinación f de rimas

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rhyme

[ˈraɪm]

(= same sound) → rime f
Rhyme can be used as a memory aid → On peut se servir de la rime comme d'un moyen mnémotechnique.
a rhyme for sth → un mot qui rime avec qch

(= verse) in rhyme → en vers

(= poem) → poésie f
a children's rhyme → une poésie d'enfant

without rhyme or reason → sans rime ni raison

vi → rimer
to rhyme with sth → rimer avec qch

vt [+ word] → faire rimer
to rhyme sth with sth → faire rimer qch avec qchrhyming slang n argot dans lequel on remplace un mot donné par un autre mot ou une expression qui rime avec lui

rhyme

(= rhyming word) → Reim m; rhyme scheme → Reimschema nt; without rhyme or reason → ohne Sinn und Verstand; there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, that has no rhyme or reason → das hat weder Sinn noch Verstand

(= poem) → Gedicht nt; in rhyme → in Reimen or Versen; to put into rhyme → in Reime or Verse bringen

vt → reimen

(words) → sich reimen

(pej, = write verse) → reimen, Verse schmieden

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rhyme

[raɪm]

1. n → rima; (verse) → poesia
without rhyme or reason → senza capo né coda

2. vi to rhyme (with) → fare rima (con)

rhyme

(raim) noun

1. a short poem. a book of rhymes for children.

2. a word which is like another in its final sound(s). `Beef' and `leaf' are rhymes.

3. verse or poetry using such words at the ends of the lines. To amuse his colleagues he wrote his report in rhyme.

verb

(of words) to be rhymes. `Beef' rhymes with `leaf'; `Beef' and `leaf' rhyme.

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While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the pæan of the bells - Of the bells: - Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells - Of the bells, bells, bells - To the sobbing of the bells: - Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells - Of the bells, bells, bells: - To the tolling of the bells - Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

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He so often disturbed Pelisson, that the latter, raising his head, crossly said, "At least, La Fontaine, supply me with a rhyme, since you have the run of the gardens at Parnassus."

"What rhyme do you want?" asked the Fabler as Madame de Sevigne used to call him.

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Anglo-Saxon poetry depended for its pleasantness to the ear, not on rhyme as does ours, but on accent and alliteration.

Sometimes even in translation the rhyme may be kept, as:--

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Only the even lines rhyme, except in the four-line or stop-short poem, when the first line often rhymes with the second and fourth, curiously recalling the Rubaiyat form of the Persian poets.

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The Spencerian stanza, with its rich variety of movement and its harmonious closes, long shut "Childe Harold" from me, and whenever I found a poem in any book which did not rhyme its second line with its first I read it unwillingly or not at all.

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As a conclusion for this chapter I will copy out a little song which I extemporised for Sylvia on our way home to Yellowsands-- too artlessly happy, it will be observed, to rhyme correctly:--

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A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.

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So that by no possibility could Coleridge's wild Rhyme have had aught to do with those mystical impressions which were mine, when I saw that bird upon our deck.

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He said she would slap down a line, and if she couldn't find anything to rhyme with it would just scratch it out and slap down another one, and go ahead.

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