Rhyming

"How's the trouble and strife?" is an example of a sentence using Cockney rhyming slang.

"How's the trouble and strife?" is an example of a sentence using Cockney rhyming slang. It means "How's your wife?"

'Teng' and 'cheng' are rhyming words.

Ziri was rhyming his words.

"Apples and pears" is rhyming slang for "stairs".

A couplet is a short poem consisting of two rhyming lines.

"Then your worship understands rhyming too?" "And better than thou thinkest," replied Don Quixote, "as thou shalt see when thou carriest a letter written in verse from beginning to end to my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, for I would have thee know, Sancho, that all or most of the knights-errant in days of yore were great troubadours and great musicians, for both of these accomplishments, or more properly speaking gifts, are the peculiar property of lovers-errant: true it is that the verses of the knights of old have more spirit than neatness in them."

"Septics" is rhyming slang, meaning "Americans": "septic tank, Yank".

With their internal rhymings and cryptic puns and allusions, Williams's lines of dialogue may tax the actor as well as the audience.