rhyme : Idioms & Phrases

• noun use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
  alliteration; head rhyme; beginning rhyme.
  
  • around the rock the ragged rascal ran

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• noun the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
  consonance.
  

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• noun a two-syllable rhyme
  
  • `ended' and `blended' form a double rhyme

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• adjective satellite rhymed on the terminal syllables of the verses
  

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• noun an imperfect rhyme (e.g., `love' and `move')
  

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• . See under Female.

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Female rhymes

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1. (Pros.), double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. ✍ A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree (strain, complain) is called a male rhyme; one in which the two final syllables of each verse agree, the last being short (motion, ocean), is called female. Brande & C. -- Female screw, the spiral-threaded cavity into which another, or male, screw turns. Nicholson.

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Feminine rhyme

Definitions

1. (Pros.) See Female rhyme, under Female, a. Syn. -- See Female, a.

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• noun use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
  alliteration; head rhyme; beginning rhyme.
  
  • around the rock the ragged rascal ran

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• noun use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
  alliteration; head rhyme; beginning rhyme.
  
  • around the rock the ragged rascal ran

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• noun a rhyme between words in the same line
  

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• a rhyme in which only the last syllables agree, as laid, afraid, dismayed. See Female rhyme, under Female.

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• noun a tale in rhymed verse for children
  

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• sound or sense.

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• noun a stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer
  

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• (Pros.), a stanza of seven decasyllabic verses, of which the first and third, the second, fourth, and fifth, and the sixth and seventh rhyme.

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• noun slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component
  
  • Cockney rhyming slang

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• (Pros.), the meter of five accents, with couplet rhyme; probably so called from the mounted pilgrims described in the Canterbury Tales. Dr. Guest.

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• noun the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
  assonance.
  

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