rhyming

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Rhyming in heroic couplets, the poem takes its inspiration from Alexander Pope’s 18th-century mock-heroic work “The Dunciad,” which depicts journalists worshiping the goddess “Boredom.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2021

Rhyming “clamped” with “claims” and “calm,” Hayes names Coleman, “Miss Calamity,” a mythic wordsmith “hurling hurt / Where the moon should be and stomping into our darkness calmly.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2018

Rhyming public-health slogans that used to extol “Fewer kids, better life” have recently been removed.

From Economist • Jun. 5, 2014

Read subsequently defended the rhyming couplets which had come under critical fire: "Rhyming couplets did not do Shakespeare or Gilbert and Sullivan much harm."

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2012

Rhyming words took their form from children's books—the smallest pig in the litter, the hounds pursuing the fox, the flat-bottomed boats on the Cam by Grantchester meadow.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan