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A piece of poetry or verse
“Donald's older sister, Yvonne, composed a rhyme about her little brother.”
The art or craft of writing poems
“He blusters, intrigues, fights, and will even speak in rhyme if the situation seems to warrant.”
A rhythmic pattern, especially in a poem
“The firm authentic cadence gives the lie to the charmingly melodramatic words of Cherubino's quest, settling gently back in a harmonic place and reasserting by its singsong rhythmic rhyme the frame of the poem.”
The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds, typically in literature or poetry
“Hardy's further use of rhyme and assonance, or vowel chime, makes this one of his finest poems.”
To be consistent or in agreement with
“They appear in his work as a pair of opposites linked by a common concern to make the study of the facts rhyme with presuppositions of a purely political kind.”
(music) To speak in rhyming lyrics rhythmically
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