| 单词 | masculine rhyme |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmasculine rhyme 2. Prosody. Of a rhyme: occurring between lines ending in a stressed syllable; esp. in masculine rhyme. Cf. male adj. 4, feminine rhyme n. at feminine adj. and n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > masculine rhyme masculine rhymea1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2v Euen the very ryme it selfe, the Italian cannot put in the last silable, by the French named the Masculine ryme. 1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles ii. i. 176 In any Rime Masculine, Feminine, Or Sdruciolla [printed Sdrnciolla]. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rhyme Masculine Rhymes are those of all other Words [than such as end with an e mute]. 1844 C. Beck & C. C. Felton tr. E. Munk Metres Greeks & Romans 27 The former close, because it terminates in a thesis, and is on that account, less forcible, is called feminine, the latter, masculine. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1871) 201 The verses of the first [stanza] have all of them masculine rhymes. 1891 J. C. Parsons Eng. Versif. 44 Rhyme between final syllables is called single or masculine rhyme. 1987 Shakespeare Q. 38 314 In combination with the stressed syllable preceding it, that final unstressed syllable forms a kind of rhyme that, employing terminology used in Shakespeare's era, we continue to call feminine rhyme... The ‘addition’ of that syllable converts what is masculine rhyme in the typical ‘Shakespearean’ sonnet into feminine rhyme in this one. < as lemmas |
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