Rhyme Definition:
- Rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in 2 or more words.
- This method is most often used in poetry & songs.
- A rhyme in the strict sense is also known as a perfect rhyme - i.e. deign & gain, madness & sadness, sight & flight.
- "Rhyme" can also be used to refer to a short poem, such as a rhyming couplet or other brief rhyming poem such as nursery rhyme (see image).
- Rhyming
- Rhyming Couplet
- Rhyming Dictionary
- Rhyming Pattern
- Rhyming Poem
- Rhyming Slang
- Rhyming Text
- Rhyme can be used in a specific & also a general sense.
- Specific sense:
- 2 words rhyme if their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical.
- 2 lines of poetry rhyme if their final strong positions are filled with rhyming words.
- Classified according to the number of syllables included in the rhyme.
- Dactylic: a rhyme in which the stress is on the antepenultimate (third from last) syllable - cacophonies, Aristophanes)
- Feminine - a rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words. (picky, tricky)
- Masculine - a rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words. (rhyme, sublime)
- Refers to various kinds of phonetic similarity between words, & to their use in organizing verse.
- Classified according to phonetic similarity.
- Alliteration (or head rhyme) - matching initial consonants (sham, shell).
- Assonance - matching vowels (make, plate).
- Consonance - matching consonants (bats, bits).
- Half rhyme (or sprung rhyme) - matching final consonants (spot, tot).
- Imperfect - rhyme between a stressed & an unstressed syllable (sing, daring).
- Oblique (slant/forced) - a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound (screen, fiend; bun, thumb).
- Semirhyme - a rhyme with an extra syllable on one word. (mend, ending).
- Syllabic - a rhyme in which the last syllable of each word sounds the same but does not necessarily contain vowels (pitter, patter or beaver, revolver).
- Rime - derived from Old Frankish language rīm.
- Old English rīm - "enumeration, series, numeral".
- Old High German rīm.
- Old Irish rím.
- Greek ἀριθμός arithmos "number".
- The spelling rhyme comes from beginning of Modern English period, due to the association with Greek ῥυθμός (rhythmos).
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