Entertainment / Literature / Rhyme: Also spelled rime, rhyme is a matching similarity of sounds in two or more words, especially when their accented vowels and all succeeding consonants are identical. For instance, the word-pairs listed here are all rhymes: skating/dating, emotion/demotion, fascinate/deracinate, and plain/stain. Rhyming is frequently more than mere decoration in poetry. It helps to establish stanzaic form by marking the ends of lines, it is an aid in memorization when performing oral formulaic literature, and it contributes to the sense of unity in a poem. The best rhymes delight because of the human fascination with varying patterned repetition, but a successful and unexpected rhyme can also surprise the reader (which is especially important in comic verse). They may also serve as a rhythmical device for intensifying meaning. Several different types of rhyme and rhyme schemes exist: see also clich???© rhymes, crossed rhyme, double rhyme, end rhyme, exact rhyme, eye rhyme, feminine ending, half rhyme, head rhyme, imperfect rhyme, inexact rhyme, interlaced rhyme, internal rhyme, leonine verse, masculine ending, perfect rhyme, rhyme royal, slant rhyme, tail-rhyme, and triple rhyme. (from Old French, rime meaning 'series,' in turn adopted from Latin rithmus and Greek rhythmos)
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Rhyme Adjective Synonyms: rime, poem, poetry, verse, versification, metrical composition, song
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Lifestyle / Poetry / Tail Rhyme: A stanza that has an extra short line (a tail, a tag) that rhymes with another such line. Cf. Bob and wheel. MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Rich Rhyme: Rhymes identical in sound (or spelling) but semantically different, e.g., 'felicity was present | to pick up her present.' MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Exact Rhyme: Exact rhyme or perfect rhyme is rhyming two words in which both the consonant sounds and vowel sounds match to create a rhyme. The term 'exact' is sometimes used more specifically to refer to two homo MORE