rime couéen.

Brit.

/ˌriːm kuːˈeɪ/, U.S.

/ˈˌrim kuˈeɪ/

Forms: Middle English ryme couwee, 1700s rime couwée, 1800s rhyme cowée, 1800s rime cowée, 1800s ryme cowee, 1800s– rime couée, 1900s– rhyme couee Brit.

/ˌrʌɪm kuːˈeɪ/, U.S.

/ˈˌraɪm kuˈeɪ/.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymons: French *rime couée, rime, couée.

Etymology: Apparently either < an unattested Anglo-Norman or Middle French phrase *rime couée, or formed in English < Anglo-Norman and Middle French rime rhyme n. + Anglo-Norman and Middle French couée, feminine of coué tailed ( < coue cue n.³ + -é : see -ate suffix²), apparently after post-classical Latin rithmus caudatus (14th cent. in a British source). Compare French rime couée (1841 or earlier, modelled on the use in English). Compare tail-rhyme n. at tail n.¹ Compounds 2, tailed rhyme at tailed adj.¹ 1d.Forms in rh- show the influence of rhyme n.

Prosody.

A verse form in which a couplet, triplet, or stanza is followed by a single additional, usually shorter, line, either unrhymed or rhyming with another such line occurring further on in the poem; (also) a stanza having this form. Cf. tail-rhyme n. at tail n.¹ Compounds 2.Sometimes used more specifically with reference to a six-line stanza rhyming aabccb.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > stanza, couplet, etc., with tail

rime couée?a1400

tail-rhyme1838

tailed rhyme1890

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 85 If it were made in ryme couwee, or in strangere or enterlace, þat rede Inglis it ere inowe..som suld haf ben fordon.

1775 T. Tyrwhitt Canterbury Tales of Chaucer IV. 72 Though Robert of Brunne in his Prologue professes not to attempt these elegancies of composition, yet he has intermixed several passages in Rime Couwée.

1827 W. Motherwell Minstrelsy p. xlvii These rhymes..are written in what is called the ‘ryme Cowee’.

1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms II. iv. iii. 303 This..is only a particular kind of the ryme cowee, or tail-verse, of which we have already spoken.

1868 T. Wright in Chron. P. de Langtoft II. 364/1 In Robert of Brunne's translation, the six French lines of rhyme cowée are expanded into twelve.

1926 PMLA 41 834 The Chester play..is written throughout in rime couée, with the rime-scheme aaabcccb, the b-rimes occurring in three-stress lines.

1945 E. P. Earnest Foreword to Lit. iv. 86 Wordsworth..used Burns's characteristic form, the rhyme couee.

1992 D. W. Colbert in S. H. Rossel Hist. Danish Lit. i. 31 The tail rhyme (rime couée) sestet that appears in the last third of the Danish chronicle..was probably patterned after these songs.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rime couée
释义	rime couéen. Brit. /ˌriːm kuːˈeɪ/, U.S. /ˈˌrim kuˈeɪ/ Forms: Middle English ryme couwee, 1700s rime couwée, 1800s rhyme cowée, 1800s rime cowée, 1800s ryme cowee, 1800s– rime couée, 1900s– rhyme couee Brit. /ˌrʌɪm kuːˈeɪ/, U.S. /ˈˌraɪm kuˈeɪ/. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymons: French rime couée, rime, couée. Etymology: Apparently either < an unattested Anglo-Norman or Middle French phrase rime couée, or formed in English < Anglo-Norman and Middle French rime rhyme n. + Anglo-Norman and Middle French couée, feminine of coué tailed ( < coue cue n.³ + -é : see -ate suffix²), apparently after post-classical Latin rithmus caudatus (14th cent. in a British source). Compare French rime couée (1841 or earlier, modelled on the use in English). Compare tail-rhyme n. at tail n.¹ Compounds 2, tailed rhyme at tailed adj.¹ 1d.Forms in rh- show the influence of rhyme n. Prosody. A verse form in which a couplet, triplet, or stanza is followed by a single additional, usually shorter, line, either unrhymed or rhyming with another such line occurring further on in the poem; (also) a stanza having this form. Cf. tail-rhyme n. at tail n.¹ Compounds 2.Sometimes used more specifically with reference to a six-line stanza rhyming aabccb. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > stanza, couplet, etc., with tail rime couée?a1400 tail-rhyme1838 tailed rhyme1890 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 85 If it were made in ryme couwee, or in strangere or enterlace, þat rede Inglis it ere inowe..som suld haf ben fordon. 1775 T. Tyrwhitt Canterbury Tales of Chaucer IV. 72 Though Robert of Brunne in his Prologue professes not to attempt these elegancies of composition, yet he has intermixed several passages in Rime Couwée. 1827 W. Motherwell Minstrelsy p. xlvii These rhymes..are written in what is called the ‘ryme Cowee’. 1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms II. iv. iii. 303 This..is only a particular kind of the ryme cowee, or tail-verse, of which we have already spoken. 1868 T. Wright in Chron. P. de Langtoft II. 364/1 In Robert of Brunne's translation, the six French lines of rhyme cowée are expanded into twelve. 1926 PMLA 41 834 The Chester play..is written throughout in rime couée, with the rime-scheme aaabcccb, the b-rimes occurring in three-stress lines. 1945 E. P. Earnest Foreword to Lit. iv. 86 Wordsworth..used Burns's characteristic form, the rhyme couee. 1992 D. W. Colbert in S. H. Rossel Hist. Danish Lit. i. 31 The tail rhyme (rime couée) sestet that appears in the last third of the Danish chronicle..was probably patterned after these songs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1400
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