| 单词 | tailrhyme |
| 释义 | > as lemmastail-rhyme tail-rhyme n. (also tail-rime) = tailed rhyme at tailed adj.1 1d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > stanza, couplet, etc., with tail rime couée?a1400 tail-rhyme1838 tailed rhyme1890 1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms II. iv. i. 289 This, like the interwoven and tail-rhime, seems to have been first used by the Latinist. 1916 J. E. Wells Man. Writings Middle Eng. I. 86 Lines 3411 to the end are in tail-rime stanzas. 1945 E. K. Chambers Eng. Lit. at Close of Middle Ages i. 25 The metre of the Chester plays..is a Romance metre of the type known as rime couée or tail-rhyme. 1982 Notes & Queries June 242/2 With certain common patterns, of couplets, quatrains, and versions of the tail-rhyme stanza, predominating. tail-rhyme d. tailed rhyme (rarely tail-rhyme), rendering of French rime couée, medieval Latin rithmus caudātus (see couwee adj.), applied to a couplet, triplet, or stanza with a tail, tag, or additional short line, either unrhymed or rhyming with another tag further on. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > stanza, couplet, etc., with tail rime couée?a1400 tail-rhyme1838 tailed rhyme1890 1890 Cent. Dict. at Rime1 Tailed rime. 1893 H. D. Traill Social England I. iv. 448 [Verses] in rime couée. Note, Or tail-rime [1898 (also called tailed-rime)]: a stanza where some lines, usually the third and sixth, are shorter (e.g. Chaucer's Rime of Sir Thopas). < as lemmas |
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