单词 | imperfect rhyme |
释义 | > as lemmasimperfect rhyme imperfect rhyme n. Prosody a form of rhyme between words having similar but not identical sounds (usually those having corresponding vowel sounds but different consonants, or vice versa); poetry or poetic style characterized by such rhymes; opposed to perfect rhyme n. at perfect adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2; cf. half-rhyme n. ΚΠ 1757 Beauties of Poetry Display'd I. p.xxx The imperfect Rhyme is when either of the last syllables do not form a perfect Similitude of Sound, or the Accent is not placed on these Syllables. 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 486/1 If the sounds of the last vowels or of any of the following consonants differ in any degree..the rhyme is so far imperfect; thus, love and move form an imperfect rhyme. 1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. xxv. 553 In Icelandic poetry..imperfect rhyme is regularly employed, and..is called skothendíng,..which we may conveniently translate by half-rhyme. 1919 Mod. Lang. Rev. 14 450 The play contains the same imperfect rhymes..: estés: vez; razon: son; belleza: pavesa, etc. 1997 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 28 Aug. c13 One of his [sc. Jimmie Dale Gilmore] most popular songs..ends in the imperfect rhyme of ‘bright lights on my mind’ and then ‘dollar and a dime’. < as lemmas |
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