Rhyme

[raɪm]

解釋/意思:

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

(verb.) compose rhymes.

(verb.) be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; 'hat and cat rhyme'.

整理:洛厄尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.

(n.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any.

(n.) Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.

(n.) A word answering in sound to another word.

(n.) To make rhymes, or verses.

(n.) To accord in rhyme or sound.

(v. t.) To put into rhyme.

(v. t.) To influence by rhyme.

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解釋/意思:

n. the recurrence of similar sounds at certain intervals: (orig.) words arranged in numbers or verse: poetry: metre: a short poem.—v.i. to correspond in sound: to harmonise: to chime: to make rhymes or verses.—v.t. to put into rhyme.—adj. Rhyme′less without rhyme or reason: without sound or sense: neither pleasant to the mind nor to the ear.—ns. Rhyme′-lett′er the repeated letters in alliteration (q.v.); Rhy′mer Rhy′mist Rī′mist an inferior poet: a minstrel; Rhyme′-roy′al (so called from its use by King James I. of Scotland in the King's Quair) a seven-line stanza borrowed by Chaucer from the French—its formula a b a b b c c; Rhyme′ster a poetaster: a would-be poet.—adjs. Rhy′mic Rī′mic.—Feminine rhyme (see Feminine); Male or Masculine rhyme a rhyme in which the accent and rhyme fall on the final syllable only.—Neither rhyme nor reason without either sound or sense.—The Rhymer Thomas the Rhymer the earliest poet of Scotland (flor. 1286).

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