单词 | unrhymed |
释义 | unrhymedadj. Without rhymes; not rhyming. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [adjective] > unrhymed rhymeless1532 unrhymed1770 α. β. 1774 W. Mitford Ess. Harmony Lang. 142 Rimed verse..is far inferior to unrimed.1886 W. W. Skeat Wars Alex. p. xx Any other unrimed alliterative poem.1946 Y. Winters Edwin Arlington Robinson v. 79 The lines read as if they ought to be rimed and were left unrimed through an oversight.1992 L. Nelson Poetic Configurations viii. 128 Of course in previous centuries unrimed Latin poetry was written.2009 A. S. Kharbe Eng. Lang. & Literary Crit. v. 152 Blank verse: unrimed iambic pentameter.1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa II. 184 By a romance the Spaniards commonly mean a composition made up of such stanzas as those that are termed Coplas or Seguedillas, which they often sing, or of short unrhymed verses, which they only recite in a particular chaunting tone. 1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 290 The grand unrhymed Romance of his earthly existence. 1848 H. W. Longfellow Secret of Sea iv With a soft, monotonous cadence, Flow its unrhymed lyric lines. 1887 E. Dowden Life Shelley I. vi. 284 ‘The Voyage’, like ‘Queen Mab’, passes before its close from the unrhymed Southean verse into blank verse. 1923 G. Saintsbury in Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Jan. 2/1 There undoubtedly is room for ametric and unrhymed but symphonically rhythmed verse. 1968 New York 25 Nov. 68/1 Clues to the ten words in each quadrant are given in the form of five unrhymed couplets. 2006 Reader's Digest Apr. 36/1 He's reduced 100 great literary works into the form of a haiku, the Japanese poem containing three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1770 |
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