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(prosody) An unstressed syllable at the start of a verse.
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Alternative form of asymmetric meter [(music) meter with an irregular pulse (usually with the top number of the time signature being 5, 7, 11, etc.).]
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Alternative spelling of berhyme [(transitive) To compose rhymes about; celebrate in rhyme; make poetry about someone.]
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(dated) Words that rhyme, proposed in a parlour game as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.
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(poetry) The splitting of the final word in a line of poetry (onto the next line) such that a rhyme is formed from a syllable other than the last.
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Truncation at the close of a line of poetry by omission of one or two final syllables.
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A cant used by Cockneys in which a word or phrase is replaced by a rhyming word or phrase, this word or phrase then often being abbreviated to its first syllable or syllables, or its first word. The word chosen as the rhyme often shares attributes of the word that it replaces.
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Relating to countermelody.
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Any of the rhymes used in counting-out games.
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(prosody) A verse or period consisting of two cola or members.
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(often uncountable) The form of rhyme (rhyming) which uses sameness of sound of the last words of lines from the vowels in their stressed syllables to their ends.
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A pair of words (or syllables) that, because of their spelling, look as if they rhyme but, because of different pronunciation, do not.
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A rhyme that is produced by changing the normal spelling of a word, or by changing the normal structure of a phrase.
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An imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.
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Rhymes that were full rhymes in an older stage of the language, but have since become eye rhymes owing to sound changes. Historic rhymes are used by historical linguists to reconstruct the phonology of old languages.
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(rare) An extreme form of rhyme in which two lines are phonetically identical (as in "For I scream / for ice-cream").
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Alternative spelling of holorhyme [(rare) An extreme form of rhyme in which two lines are phonetically identical (as in "For I scream / for ice-cream").]
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Having or relating to any syllables that are in a line beyond what the meter calls for.
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The rhyming of words (in modern English poetry) or of stressed syllables (in old Germanic poetry) within the same line of a verse.
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(prosody) In ancient prosody, equal in the number of times for thesis and arsis, as a dactyl and anapest.
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(poetry) A rhyme in which only the last syllable agrees, as in "laid", "afraid", "dismayed".
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A simple rhyme on single stressed syllables.
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A form of rhyme in which a rhyming word is omitted, and left to be "heard" only in the reader's mind.
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(music) A composition having a single melodic line.
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(music) The characteristic of a piece that has only a primary melody and no secondary melody or accompaniment.
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(poetry) A poem or rhyme scheme whose lines all end with the same rhyme.
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(poetry) Alternative form of monorhymed [(poetry) Employing a single rhyme.]
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A performance or piece of art occurring within a single setting.
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A verse form in which the consonants of two words are identical in sound, but the vowels of the words are different, as in billet - bolt.
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A (form of) rhyme in which the vowels and final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound. (Contrast with half rhyme.)
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(countable) The word or words chosen to end the second line in such poetry.
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Obsolete form of rhyme. [(countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)]
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(poetry, rhetoric) rhopalic structure
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For which a rhyme can be found.
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(countable, in particular) A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
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Alternative spelling of rime book [Synonym of rime dictionary]
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Alternative spelling of rime dictionary [A historical type of Chinese character dictionary that collates characters by rime and tone (pronunciation) rather than by radical. It does not necessarily provide definitions.]
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(poetry) The repeated letter or letter sequence in alliteration.
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The pattern created by the rhymes at the ends of the lines of a stanza of poetry
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(derogatory) The art or habit of making rhymes.
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Characterised by rhyme.
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Of or pertaining to rhyme.
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A reference work that provides lists of rhymes for any given word.
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Any system of slang in which a word is replaced with a phrase that rhymes with it; the rhyming word often being dropped.
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Alternative form of rhymey [Characterised by rhyme.]
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Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.
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(archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme.
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Synonym of rime dictionary
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A historical type of Chinese character dictionary that collates characters by rime and tone (pronunciation) rather than by radical. It does not necessarily provide definitions.
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(poetry) A form of rhyme with identical sounds, as in "pear" and "pair".
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The practice of singing by syllables; solmisation.
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(obsolete) A sound; a tune.
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A form of rhyme in which the number of syllables varies, the stressed syllable being the first one.
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(poetry, rare) The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
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Alternative form of stave-rhyme [(countable) A (stressed) word that rhymes with another, in that it begins with the same consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel.]
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(countable) A (stressed) word that rhymes with another, in that it begins with the same consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel.
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verse that has a fixed number of syllables per line (though not always the same number of stressed syllables)
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rhyme in which the rhyming lines in each verse are followed by a shorter line; these shorter lines sometimes rhyme with each other
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(music, prosody, with a reversal of meaning) A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.
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(rhetoric) A "rising" tricolon, its parts increasing in magnitude or intensity towards a climax on the third part
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(rhetoric) A "diminishing" tricolon, its parts decreasing in magnitude or intensity
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