Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other a couplet a poem containing rhymesĪ word answering in sound to another wordĮtymology: Ĭhambers 20th Century Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any 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. Webster Dictionary (5.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition:Īn expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse a composition in verse a rhymed tale poetry harmony of languageĬorrespondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. Who rhym’d for hire, and patroniz’d for pride. There march’d the bard and blockhead, side by side, These fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhime themselves into ladies favours, they do always reason themselves out again. He was too warm on picking work to dwell,Īnd, if they rhim’d and rattled, all was well.
John Milton.Ĭarol incondite rhythms with suiting notes, Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. Prevail as much in these hard iron times Īs would a plump of trembling fowl, that rise
Such was the news, indeed, but songs and rhymes With which like ships they steer their courses. The consonance of verses the correspondence of the last sound of one verse to the last sound or syllable of another. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: ῥυϑμὸς rhythme, Fr.
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