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rhyme

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nounpoetry in which lines end with like sounds

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This American Children’s Rhyme Isn’t So American After All . . .

Is it originally American? British? Dutch? It gets a little complicated because parts of the rhyme probably come from different places and times.

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So many of the 140 lyricists who entered, some of them with a dozen or more songs each, offered songs that cleverly echoed the originals, and matched or even improved on the originals’ rhyme scheme.

STYLE CONVERSATIONAL WEEK 1424: IT’S HIVE TIME FOR ANOTHER SPELLING BEE CONTESTPAT MYERSFEBRUARY 18, 2021WASHINGTON POST

This addresses matters of length, structure, source music, rhyme and meter — what works best for a contest whose results are mostly read in text.

STYLE CONVERSATIONAL WEEK 1420: BACK TO THE VOCAL POINTPAT MYERSJANUARY 21, 2021WASHINGTON POST

The older boy would sing a little rhyme about a dog and a hunter in the woods.

I BROUGHT MY KIDS TO THE DEVIL FOR CHRISTMAS. AND THEY’RE FINE. RIGHT?PETULA DVORAKDECEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POST

“There was really no rhyme or reason to why somebody who was caught with crack cocaine was subject to imprisonment many, many times more severe than people who were found with soft cocaine,” says Virani.

THE WAR ON DRUGS DIDN’T WORK. OREGON’S PLAN MIGHT.KAT ESCHNERDECEMBER 17, 2020POPULAR SCIENCE

I don't exactly see how I could have been, considering I never made a rhyme in my life!

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUS

The sixth line is in these words: “Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme.”

ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)

It was about a trifle, some little thing that she had put into rhyme for him; how many rhymes she had written for him this summer!

TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATER

The most amusing point in it is, that the author seriously intended the lines to rhyme.

NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 177, MARCH 19, 1853VARIOUS

We passed through Banbury, whose cross, famous in nursery rhyme, is only modern.

BRITISH HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CARTHOMAS D. MURPHY

I will rhyme it as I run along, and when I hesitate and can not make good sense and a perfect rhyme, well go to sleep.