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  • A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more...
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    A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early...
    22 KB (2,067 words) - 05:45, 17 May 2024
  • A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme;...
    13 KB (1,806 words) - 20:28, 4 March 2024
  • Perfect rhyme — also called full rhyme, exact rhyme, or true rhyme — is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions:...
    8 KB (795 words) - 21:26, 10 February 2024
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    "Solomon Grundy" is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19299. The rhyme has varied very little since it was first collected...
    3 KB (266 words) - 09:55, 6 June 2024
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    "One for Sorrow" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition, the number of magpies seen tells if one will...
    10 KB (1,108 words) - 10:09, 13 June 2024
  • Alliteration (redirect from Head rhyme)
    then be seen as a special case of consonance where the repeated consonant sound opens the stressed syllable. Head rhyme or initial rhyme involves the creation...
    28 KB (3,007 words) - 06:59, 20 May 2024
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    known professionally as Busta Rhymes, is an American rapper and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the moniker Busta Rhymes, after NFL and CFL wide receiver...
    60 KB (4,784 words) - 14:14, 9 June 2024
  • An eye rhyme, also called a visual rhyme or a sight rhyme, is a rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently. Many older English...
    4 KB (459 words) - 23:37, 2 January 2024
  • The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names...
    18 KB (174 words) - 20:11, 5 April 2024
  • Rhyme book may refer to: Rhyme Book, an album by rapper Scribe Rime dictionary, a type of dictionary in ancient China slang for books that musicians keep...
    208 bytes (62 words) - 05:09, 10 January 2019
  • internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines. By contrast, rhyme between...
    12 KB (1,349 words) - 10:31, 18 May 2024
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    nursery rhyme, the earliest printed version of which dates from around 1744. The words have barely changed in two and a half centuries. It is sung to a variant...
    10 KB (1,156 words) - 17:22, 30 May 2024
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    English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. It has a Roud Folk...
    5 KB (542 words) - 10:47, 14 June 2024
  • called a masculine rhyme (or single rhyme). In English-language poetry, especially serious verse, masculine rhymes comprise a majority of all rhymes.[citation...
    10 KB (1,204 words) - 22:48, 21 January 2024
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    "Ring a Ring o' Roses", "Ring a Ring o' Rosie", or (in the United States) "Ring Around the Rosie", is a nursery rhyme, folk song and playground singing...
    20 KB (2,310 words) - 10:18, 6 June 2024
  • rhyme (or enclosing rhyme) is the rhyme scheme ABBA (that is, where the first and fourth lines, and the second and third lines rhyme). Enclosed-rhyme...
    2 KB (95 words) - 13:21, 17 February 2022
  • dictionary. "Sticks and Stones" is an English-language children's rhyme. The rhyme is used as a defense against name-calling and verbal bullying, intended to...
    7 KB (838 words) - 14:22, 24 January 2024
  • The Rhyme may refer to: The Rhyme (XM), a former XM Satellite Radio channel The Rhyme (song), a 1996 song by Keith Murray Rhyme (disambiguation) This...
    219 bytes (57 words) - 17:00, 9 June 2024
  • Rhyme royal (or rime royal) is a rhyming stanza form that was introduced to English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. The form enjoyed significant success in...
    14 KB (1,794 words) - 22:08, 22 May 2024
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