Rhyme

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"Rhyme" in a Sentence (35 examples)

Rhyme and meter form the essential rules of Chinese poetry.

The poem's rhyme scheme is highly complex.

What's your favorite nursery rhyme?

History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

There's no rhyme or reason to that plan.

The English word "amoeba" and the Japanese word "tatoeba" don't rhyme.

There's no rhyme or reason to life and death. Many people who do all the right things die early anyway, while others live to an old age.

In your language, does "heart" rhyme with "pain"?

Much of what is termed "socially acceptable" behavior consists of arbitrary prejudices or proscriptions with no rhyme or reason.

Those words don't rhyme.

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Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.

Libels are caſt againſt thee in the ſtreete, / Ballads and rimes made of thy ouerthrovv.

Thou, thou, Lyſander, thou haſt giuen her rimes, / And interchang'd loue tokens vvith my childe: […]

VVhen in the Chronicle of vvaſted time, / I ſee diſcriptions of the faireſt vvights, / And beautie making beautifull old rime, / In praiſe of Ladies dead, and louely Knights, […]

I thought, if I could dravv my paines, / Through Rimes vexation, I ſhould them allay, / Griefe brought to numbers cannot be ſo fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verſe.

Tennyson’s rhymes

Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.

Rap makes use of rhymes such as “money … honey” and “nope … dope”.

"Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".

The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.

[M]ary I cannot ſhevv it in rime, I haue tried, I can finde out no rime to Ladie, but babie, an innocent rime: for ſcorne, horne, a hard rime: for ſchoole foole, a babling rime: very ominous endings, no, I vvas not borne vnder a riming plannet, nor i cannot vvooe in feſtiuall termes: […]

Sometimes a man knovvs a place determinate, vvithin the compaſſe vvhereof he is to ſeek: […] as a man ſhould run over the Alphabet, to ſtart a rime.

[S]hould not all the world delight to honour this unfortunate and loyal follower of the Muses? May Apollo send him rimes hitherto undreamed of; […]

I heard Drake's new rhyme last night.

His rhymes are all weak.

Ha, ha, hovv vildely doth this Cynicke rime?

How Panurge and the rest rim'd with Poetick Fury [chapter title]

There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, / Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.

“He was aye rimin’,” said Miss Newbigging, “about this bonny countryside and the dacent folk that bode in it.”

Now she's tainted by the syringe Try to rhyme a word with orange

Creation rhymes with integration and station.

India and windier rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.

Mug and rug rhyme.

I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.

In addition, the look rhymes with but inverts the meaning of the first silent look he gets instead of words when he asks Lucien in the photo shop if he remembers him, and Lucien shrugs his shoulders in denial.

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