Rhyme
noun
Two words or lines in a poem with ending sounds that match.
The words 'rain' and 'plain' are a rhyme in the song 'Home on the Range.'
Often appears as...
- perfect rhyme
- internal rhyme
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Poetic
verb
To create or use a rhyme.
I can't think of a word to rhyme with 'love.'
Often appears as...
- rhyme with
- rhyme scheme
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Poetic
noun
A composition or piece of verse that rhymes.
He wrote a beautiful rhyme about nature.
Often appears as...
- nursery rhyme
- write a rhyme
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Literary
noun
An example of language or speech that rhymes typically used in teaching children.
'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' is a popular nursery rhyme.
Often appears as...
- nursery rhyme
- rhyme book
Usage tips
Childish
noun
Two words or lines in a poem with ending sounds that match.
The words 'rain' and 'plain' are a rhyme in the song 'Home on the Range.'
Often appears as...
- perfect rhyme
- internal rhyme
Usage tips
Poetic
verb
To create or use a rhyme.
I can't think of a word to rhyme with 'love.'
Often appears as...
- rhyme with
- rhyme scheme
Usage tips
Poetic
noun
A composition or piece of verse that rhymes.
He wrote a beautiful rhyme about nature.
Often appears as...
- nursery rhyme
- write a rhyme
Usage tips
Literary
noun
An example of language or speech that rhymes typically used in teaching children.
'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' is a popular nursery rhyme.
Often appears as...
- nursery rhyme
- rhyme book
Usage tips
Childish
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Poetic Device
Rhyme gives poems a musical rhythm, helping with memorization and recitation.
Poets use rhyme to add a lyrical effect to their verses.
Pro Tip 2/3Matching Sounds
The matching sounds often occur at the end of lines and involve the last syllable.
In the poem, the rhyme comes at end of each line with 'sky' and 'high.'
Pro Tip 3/3Rhyme Varieties
Rhymes can be perfect, slant or internal, depending on sound and placement.
Slant rhyme uses similar but not identical sounds, like 'hold' and 'bald.'
Pro Tip 1/3Poetic Device
Rhyme gives poems a musical rhythm, helping with memorization and recitation.
Poets use rhyme to add a lyrical effect to their verses.
Pro Tip 2/3Matching Sounds
The matching sounds often occur at the end of lines and involve the last syllable.
In the poem, the rhyme comes at end of each line with 'sky' and 'high.'
Pro Tip 3/3Rhyme Varieties
Rhymes can be perfect, slant or internal, depending on sound and placement.
Slant rhyme uses similar but not identical sounds, like 'hold' and 'bald.'
Pro Tip 1/3Poetic Device
Rhyme gives poems a musical rhythm, helping with memorization and recitation.
Poets use rhyme to add a lyrical effect to their verses.
Pro Tip 2/3Matching Sounds
The matching sounds often occur at the end of lines and involve the last syllable.
In the poem, the rhyme comes at end of each line with 'sky' and 'high.'
Pro Tip 3/3Rhyme Varieties
Rhymes can be perfect, slant or internal, depending on sound and placement.
Slant rhyme uses similar but not identical sounds, like 'hold' and 'bald.'
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Why does the universe...
the question, "Why does the world exist?" that's the cosmic question, it sort of rhymes with a more intimate Why do I exist? Why do you exist? you know, our existence would seem to be amazingly improbable, because there's an enormous number of genetically possible humans, if you can compute it by looking at
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Why the secret to...
How passionate? What actions does your passion lead you to do? If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing. The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside it. It gives us an environment for risk, for trust,
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A True Clue PIPE Duck...
pleasing form of human communication but just because we like rhymes does that mean we can be influenced by them are we more likely to believe a statement if it rhymes my research shows that rhyming statements are easier to understand that non-rhyming statements this is a
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The five major world...
In the next few years, more and more messages came, and he memorized and taught them. The verses he recited were full of wise sayings, beautiful rhymes, and mysterious metaphors. But Muhammad was a merchant, not a poet. Many agreed the verses were indeed the words of God,
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"To This Day" ... for...
surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all. So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we'd be lonely forever,
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Stephen Burt: Why people...
from the future or the past or across the world, because their patterns can seem to tell you what's in somebody's heart. It says poems can bring people together temporarily, which I think is true, and it sticks in my head not just because it rhymes
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The pleasure of poetic...
"So long lives this and this gives life to thee." In fact, this type of specific consonance, which occurs at the beginning of words may be familiar to you already. It's called alliteration, or front rhyme. Great examples include tongue twisters.
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The Other Side of Essex...
the razor wire that defends the power station and the sewage works finds its rhyme in the briars and the brambles that coil sharply just behind it this is essex mashed up mixed up the human and the natural there's nothing easy here it's hard it
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Africa’s rhyming history...
these downturns in world economic conditions what if Africa's civil society had been strong enough to expose and limit the misuse of power I will close I have offered three episodes in Africa's history which might suggest a rhyme with
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Spectacular, glorious,...
are all singing songs of your affection with rhymes to your perfection in my eyes see a reflection
Video examples
Why does the universe...
the question, "Why does the world exist?" that's the cosmic question, it sort of rhymes with a more intimate Why do I exist? Why do you exist? you know, our existence would seem to be amazingly improbable, because there's an enormous number of genetically possible humans, if you can compute it by looking at
Video examples
Why the secret to...
How passionate? What actions does your passion lead you to do? If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing. The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside it. It gives us an environment for risk, for trust,
Video examples
A True Clue PIPE Duck...
pleasing form of human communication but just because we like rhymes does that mean we can be influenced by them are we more likely to believe a statement if it rhymes my research shows that rhyming statements are easier to understand that non-rhyming statements this is a
Video examples
The five major world...
In the next few years, more and more messages came, and he memorized and taught them. The verses he recited were full of wise sayings, beautiful rhymes, and mysterious metaphors. But Muhammad was a merchant, not a poet. Many agreed the verses were indeed the words of God,
Video examples
"To This Day" ... for...
surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all. So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we'd be lonely forever,
Video examples
Stephen Burt: Why people...
from the future or the past or across the world, because their patterns can seem to tell you what's in somebody's heart. It says poems can bring people together temporarily, which I think is true, and it sticks in my head not just because it rhymes
Video examples
The pleasure of poetic...
"So long lives this and this gives life to thee." In fact, this type of specific consonance, which occurs at the beginning of words may be familiar to you already. It's called alliteration, or front rhyme. Great examples include tongue twisters.
Video examples
The Other Side of Essex...
the razor wire that defends the power station and the sewage works finds its rhyme in the briars and the brambles that coil sharply just behind it this is essex mashed up mixed up the human and the natural there's nothing easy here it's hard it
Video examples
Africa’s rhyming history...
these downturns in world economic conditions what if Africa's civil society had been strong enough to expose and limit the misuse of power I will close I have offered three episodes in Africa's history which might suggest a rhyme with
Video examples
Spectacular, glorious,...
are all singing songs of your affection with rhymes to your perfection in my eyes see a reflection
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Carrie Coon
American Actress
I rarely get recognized, and whenever I do, it has to do with 'The Leftovers' because it came into someone's life at a particularly important time for them - if they were dealing with grief or loss or whatever tragedy - and they just caught it. And there is no rhyme or reason to the kind of person it is.
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Ice T
American Musician
I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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Mike Posner
American Musician
It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing.
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Big Daddy Kane
American Rapper
What earns my respect is... I love great lyricists, artists that can create incredible rhymes or incredible songs. The same thing goes if you're a singer. I definitely respect that.
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Gza
American Musician
Rap - it's a childhood passion. Writing rhymes, it's something that I was doing before rap records even existed. And I will continue to write until I can't write anymore.
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Al Green
American Musician
There's more to hip-hop than just trying to make everything rhyme, and you find out in life that everything don't rhyme. The music they're cutting is musically fantastic.
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B.o.B
American Musician
All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.
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India Arie
American Musician
I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.
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Saul Williams
American Musician
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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Stephen Sondheim
American Composer
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
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Carrie Coon
American Actress
I rarely get recognized, and whenever I do, it has to do with 'The Leftovers' because it came into someone's life at a particularly important time for them - if they were dealing with grief or loss or whatever tragedy - and they just caught it. And there is no rhyme or reason to the kind of person it is.
Quote examples
Ice T
American Musician
I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
Quote examples
Mike Posner
American Musician
It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing.
Quote examples
Big Daddy Kane
American Rapper
What earns my respect is... I love great lyricists, artists that can create incredible rhymes or incredible songs. The same thing goes if you're a singer. I definitely respect that.
Quote examples
Gza
American Musician
Rap - it's a childhood passion. Writing rhymes, it's something that I was doing before rap records even existed. And I will continue to write until I can't write anymore.
Quote examples
Al Green
American Musician
There's more to hip-hop than just trying to make everything rhyme, and you find out in life that everything don't rhyme. The music they're cutting is musically fantastic.
Quote examples
B.o.B
American Musician
All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.
Quote examples
India Arie
American Musician
I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.
Quote examples
Saul Williams
American Musician
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
Quote examples
Stephen Sondheim
American Composer
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
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