rhyme

also rime R0227200 (rīm)n.1. Correspondence of sounds at the ends of words or phrases, especially when involving the last stressed vowel and all succeeding sounds in each of two or more such words or phrases.2. A word that exhibits such correspondence with another, as behold and cold.3. a. A poem or verse employing such correspondence as a formal feature, especially at the ends of lines.b. Poetry or verse of this kind.v. rhymed, rhym·ing, rhymes also rimed or rim·ing or rimes v.intr.1. To form a rhyme.2. To compose rhymes or verse.3. To make use of rhymes in composing verse.v.tr.1. To put into rhyme or compose with rhymes.2. To use (a word or words) as a rhyme.

[Alteration (influenced by rhythm) of Middle English rime, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]

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n1. (Poetry) identity of the terminal sounds in lines of verse or in words2. (Poetry) a word that is identical to another in its terminal sound: "while" is a rhyme for "mile". 3. (Poetry) a verse or piece of poetry having corresponding sounds at the ends of the lines: the boy made up a rhyme about his teacher. 4. (Poetry) any verse or piece of poetry5. rhyme or reason sense, logic, or meaning: this proposal has no rhyme or reason. vb6. (Poetry) to use (a word) or (of a word) to be used so as to form a rhyme; be or make identical in sound7. (Poetry) to render (a subject) into rhyme8. (Poetry) to compose (verse) in a metrical structure[C12: from Old French rime, from rimer to rhyme, from Old High German rīm a number; spelling influenced by rhythm] ˈrhymeless, ˈrimeless adj

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n., v. rhymed, rhym•ing. n. 1. identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse. 2. a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and kind. 3. verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines. 4. a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence. v.t. 5. to treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose. 6. to compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes. 7. to use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes. v.i. 8. to make rhyme or verse. 9. to use rhyme in writing verse. 10. to form a rhyme, as one word or line with another. 11. to be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse. Idioms: rhyme or reason, logic, sense, or method (usu. used in the negative): These decisions seem to be made without rhyme or reason. There was no rhyme or reason for what they did. [1250–1300; Middle English rime < Old French, derivative of rimer to rhyme < Gallo-Romance *rimāre to put in a row < Frankish; compare Old High German rīm series, row; current sp. (from c1600) appar. by association with rhythm] rhym′er, n.

rhyme

assonance - The condition of the words of a phrase or verse having the same sound or termination without rhyming.
blank verse - A verse without rhyme.
rhyme - From Latin rhythmus, "rhythm," from Greek rhein, "to flow."
rhyme or reason - A phrase derived from French ni rime ni raison.

rhyme

Past participle: rhymed
Gerund: rhyming

Imperative
rhyme
rhyme

Present
I rhyme
you rhyme
he/she/it rhymes
we rhyme
you rhyme
they rhyme

Preterite
I rhymed
you rhymed
he/she/it rhymed
we rhymed
you rhymed
they rhymed

Present Continuous
I am rhyming
you are rhyming
he/she/it is rhyming
we are rhyming
you are rhyming
they are rhyming

Present Perfect
I have rhymed
you have rhymed
he/she/it has rhymed
we have rhymed
you have rhymed
they have rhymed

Past Continuous
I was rhyming
you were rhyming
he/she/it was rhyming
we were rhyming
you were rhyming
they were rhyming

Past Perfect
I had rhymed
you had rhymed
he/she/it had rhymed
we had rhymed
you had rhymed
they had rhymed

Future
I will rhyme
you will rhyme
he/she/it will rhyme
we will rhyme
you will rhyme
they will rhyme

Future Perfect
I will have rhymed
you will have rhymed
he/she/it will have rhymed
we will have rhymed
you will have rhymed
they will have rhymed

Future Continuous
I will be rhyming
you will be rhyming
he/she/it will be rhyming
we will be rhyming
you will be rhyming
they will be rhyming

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been rhyming
you have been rhyming
he/she/it has been rhyming
we have been rhyming
you have been rhyming
they have been rhyming

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been rhyming
you will have been rhyming
he/she/it will have been rhyming
we will have been rhyming
you will have been rhyming
they will have been rhyming

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been rhyming
you had been rhyming
he/she/it had been rhyming
we had been rhyming
you had been rhyming
they had been rhyming

Conditional
I would rhyme
you would rhyme
he/she/it would rhyme
we would rhyme
you would rhyme
they would rhyme

Past Conditional
I would have rhymed
you would have rhymed
he/she/it would have rhymed
we would have rhymed
you would have rhymed
they would have rhymed

rhyme

Similarity in the sound of endings of different words, especially vowels of the last stressed syllables (and any which follow them). Masculine rhymes stress the last syllable, feminine do not; imperfect rhymes have vowels which do not quite match; identical use the same word, often with different meaning; eye rhymes look but do not sound the same (though in old poems this may be due to a change in pronunciation); internal rhymes are when a word within a line rhymes with its last word.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	rhyme - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)rimepoem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical linesversification - the form or metrical composition of a poeminternal rhyme - a rhyme between words in the same linealliteration, beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme - use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"assonance, vowel rhyme - the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive wordsconsonance, consonant rhyme - the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of wordsdouble rhyme - a two-syllable rhyme; "`ended' and `blended' form a double rhyme"eye rhyme - an imperfect rhyme (e.g., `love' and `move')
	2.	rhyme - a piece of poetry versepoem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical linesclerihew - a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person; "`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew"doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle - a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"limerick - a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
Verb	1.	rhyme - compose rhymesrimepoesy, poetry, verse - literature in metrical formcreate verbally - create with or from wordstag - supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymesalliterate - use alliteration as a form of poetry
	2.	rhyme - be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme"rimecorrespond, gibe, jibe, match, tally, agree, fit, check - be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"assonate - correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance; "The accented vowels assonated in this poem"

rhyme

noun1. poem, song, verse, ode, ditty, piece of poetry, metrical composition He has taught her a little rhyme.rhyme or reason (usually in negative construction) sense, meaning, plan, planning, system, method, pattern, logic He picked people without rhyme or reason.

rhyme

nounA poetic work or poetic works:poem, poesy, poetry, verse.

Translations

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rhyme

(raim) noun1. a short poem. a book of rhymes for children. 押韵的短诗短诗 2. a word which is like another in its final sound(s). `Beef' and `leaf' are rhymes. 同韵词韵 3. verse or poetry using such words at the ends of the lines. To amuse his colleagues he wrote his report in rhyme. 押韵韵诗 verb (of words) to be rhymes. `Beef' rhymes with `leaf'; `Beef' and `leaf' rhyme.与...押韵

rhyme

rime,

the most prominent of the literary artifices used in versificationversification,
principles of metrical practice in poetry. In different literatures poetic form is achieved in various ways; usually, however, a definite and predictable pattern is evident in the language.
..... Click the link for more information. . Although it was used in ancient East Asian poetry, rhyme was practically unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans. With the decline of the classical quantitative meters and the substitution of accentual meters, rhyme began to develop, especially in the sacred Latin poetry of the early Christian church. In the Middle Ages, end rhyme (rhyme at the end of a line), assonance (repetition of related vowel sounds), and alliteration (repetition of consonants, particularly at the beginning of words) were predominant in vernacular verse. After 1300 rhyme came to be the outstanding metrical mark of poetry until the introduction of blank verse in the 16th cent. Alliteration and assonance were both called rhyme by early writers, but today two words are said to rhyme only when the sound of the final accented syllable of one word (placed usually at the end of a line of verse) agrees with the final accented syllable of another word so placed. When the vowels in the final accented syllables of the two rhyming words and the consonants (if any) succeeding the vowel have exactly the same sound, it is called perfect rhyme, e.g., shroud and cloud, mark and bark. Many poets, however, particularly 20th-century poets, use imperfect or approximate rhymes, in which the rhymed vowels and even the consonants might be similar but not identical, e.g., groaned and ground. Two words cannot rhyme unless both are accented on the same syllable. When rhymes are of one syllable or end in a consonant with no mute e following, as sad and bad, they are said to be a single or masculine rhyme. This type predominates in English verse because of the great number of monosyllabic words in the language. When rhymes are of two syllables or, more properly, when they are not accented on the last syllable or end in a final mute e (able and cable), they are said to be weak endings, or double, or feminine, rhymes. Feminine rhyme predominates in Spanish and Italian poetry, while German and French use masculine and feminine rhyme equally. Triple rhymes, or three-syllable rhymes, as cheerily and wearily, are less common, especially in serious verse. Rhymes of more than three syllables are rare. Some rhymes, as wind (noun) and kind, are called eye-rhymes (words which are spelled alike but not pronounced alike) and have come into general use through "poetic license." Occasionally the initial words in a line may rhyme; more often there may be a rhyme within the line. Rhymes when used in a set pattern combine with other metrical elements to form such verse structures as the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, and the heroic couplet.

Bibliography

See rhyming dictionaries in English (which include discussions of versification) by J. Walker (1775; revised and reprinted frequently), B. Johnson (1931), and C. Wood (1943; 1947); studies by H. Lanz (1968) and E. Guggenheimer (1972).

Rhyme

consonance in lines of verse, having phonic, metric, and compositional significance. Rhyme emphasizes line boundaries in verse and organizes lines into stanzas.

End rhyme is characteristic of the poetry of most nations, but such initial consonances as initial assonance in Mongolian poetry are also encountered. In different historical periods, varying demands have been made of rhyme among different peoples. Consequently, there can be no single universal definition of rhyme based on sound structure: rhyme is conditioned both by literary traditions and by a language’s phonetic structure. In Russian poetry, for example, the basis of rhyme is the consonance of stressed vowels. In the case of Czech, which has initial

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stress, the consonance of the final syllables in lines of verse does not depend on the stress location.

In masculine rhyme, stress is placed on the final syllable (beregám, luchám), and in feminine rhyme, on the penultimate syllable (Ruslána, romána). In dactylic rhyme, stress is placed on the third syllable from the end (zakóvannyi, ocharóvannyi), and the very rare hyperdactylic rhyme has more than two syllables after the stress (pokriákivaet, vskákivaet).

The configuration of rhyming lines varies. The main patterns are paired rhyme (aabb): Voron k voronu letit,/Voron voronu krichit (Pushkin); alternate rhyme (abab): Rumianoi zareiu/Pokrylsia vostok,/V sele za rekoiu/Potukh ogonek (Pushkin); and enclosed rhyme (abba): Uzh podsykhaet khmel’ na tyne./Za khutorami, na bakhchakh,/V nezharkikh solnechnykh luchakh/Krasneiut bronzovye dyni (Bunin). These patterns alternate and combine in different ways. Poems based on a single rhyme—monorhymes—are rare in European poetry but widespread in the poetry of the Middle East. A specific, consistent rhyme pattern is a typical characteristic of a stanza.

In Russian poetry, rhyme originated in the syntactic parallelism widespread in folklore. Typical of this parallelism are identical parts of speech in identical grammatical form, occurring at the ends of verse lines and resulting in consonances: Khvaliseno v stogu, a barina v grobu. In Old Russian poetry, grammatical rhymes based on suffixes and inflections predominated: biashe—znashe; otbivaet—otgoniaet.

Beginning in the 18th century, heterogeneous rhyme, composed of different parts of speech (noch’—proch’), gained acceptance. At the same time, as had already happened in the history of French and other poetry, a need gradually developed for exact rhyme, in which the final stressed vowel and all the sounds following it correspond (tobóiu—rukóiu). If the supporting consonants preceding the stressed vowel also correspond (povésa—Zevésa), the rhyme is called a rich rhyme. If consonance extends to the syllable preceding the stress, the rhyme is called a deep rhyme (zanemóg—ne móg).

Beginning in the mid—19th century, imperfect rhyme, in which the vowels following the stress do not correspond (vózdukh—rózdykh), became increasingly common in Russian verse. Since the early 20th century, poets have used various types of imperfect rhyme more frequently. These include assonance, or the correspondence of vowels and the dissimilarity, usually partial, of consonants (óblako—ókolo), and truncated rhyme, in which the final consonant of one of the words is eliminated (les—krest, plamia—pamiat’). Other types of imperfect rhyme are compound rhyme (do stá rastí—stárosti), consonance as such, in which the stressed vowels differ (nórov—kommunárov), and imparisyllabic rhyme, in which masculine or dactylic endings are rhymed with feminine or hyperdactylic ones (papákhi—popákhivaia).

Rhyme also has semantic significance. It “brings us back to the preceding line … and holds together all the lines forming a single thought” (V. V. Mayakovsky, Poln. sobr. soch., vol. 12, 1959, p. 235). An aesthetic evaluation of rhyme as perfect or imperfect, innovative or traditional, cannot be made outside the context of the entire poem and without taking into account the poem’s composition and style.

REFERENCES

Zhirmunskii, V. M. Rifma: ee istoriia i teoriia. Petrograd, 1923.
Mayakovsky, V. V. “Kak delat’ stikhi.” Poln. sobr. soch., vol. 12. Moscow, 1959.
Tomashevskii, B. V. “K istorii russkoi rifmy.” In his book Stikh i iazyk: Filologicheskie ocherki. Moscow-Leningrad, 1959.
Shtokmar, M. Rifma Maiakovskogo. Moscow, 1958.
Kholshevnikov, V. E. Osnovy stikhovedeniia: Russkoe stikhoslozhenie, 2nd ed. Leningrad, 1972.
Samoilov, D. S. Kniga o russkoi rifme. Moscow, 1973.

V. E. KHOLSHEVNIKOV

rhyme

(archaic), rime1. identity of the terminal sounds in lines of verse or in words 2. a word that is identical to another in its terminal sound 3. a verse or piece of poetry having corresponding sounds at the ends of the lines 4. any verse or piece of poetry

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noun poem

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phrase rhyme or reason

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noun a poetic work or poetic works

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noun correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

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noun a piece of poetry

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verb compose rhymes

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verb be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable

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