Rhyme

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To put into rhyme.

II. Rhyme ·vt To influence by rhyme.

III. Rhyme ·noun To make rhymes, or verses.

IV. Rhyme ·noun To accord in rhyme or sound.

V. Rhyme ·noun A word answering in sound to another word.

VI. Rhyme ·noun Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.

VII. Rhyme ·noun An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.

VIII. Rhyme ·noun 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.

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