Entertainment / Literature / Tail-Rhyme: A unit of verse in which a short line, followed by a longer line or section of longer lines, rhymes with a preceding short line. The number of possible variants following this scheme are too many to list here. Famous examples can be found in Chaucer's 'Sir Thopas' and Drayton's 'Ballad of Agincourt.' The following example of tail-rhyme comes from P. B. Shelley's 'To Night': Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, Which make thee terrible and dear,-- Swift be thy flight!(translated from French rime cou???©e, or Latin rhythmus caudatus, also called caudate rhyme)
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Entertainment / Literature / Rime Couée: The French term for tail-rhyme. See discussion under tail-rhyme. MORE