1) rhyme. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...rhyme, or rime, the most prominent of the literary artifices used in versification. Although it was used in ancient East Asian poetry, rhyme was practically unknown...
2) rhyme. Roget s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.
...A poetic work or poetic works: poem, poesy, poetry, verse. See WORDS....
3) Rhyme. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Neither rhyme nor reason. Fit neither for amusement nor instruction. An author took his book to Sir Thomas More, chancellor in the reign of Henry VIII., and asked...
4) RHYME, RIME, ASSONANCE, CONSONANCE. The Columbia Guide to Standard American
English. 1993
...Both spellings, rhyme and rime, are Standard for all uses of the word except the frost sense of rime. Rime is the older spelling of the verse word, and its relative...
5) rhyme. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold. Inflected forms: rhymed also rimed, rhymˇing, rimˇing, rhymes, rimes1. To form a rhyme....
6) off rhyme. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only, as in dry and died or grown and moon. Also called half rhyme, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, slant...
7) beginning rhyme. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1. Rhyme at the beginning of consecutive lines of verse. Also called initial rhyme. 2. See head rhyme....
8) perfect rhyme. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1. Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different, for example, great,...
9) eye rhyme. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A rhyme consisting of words, such as lint and pint, with similar spellings but different sounds. Also called sight rhyme....
10) RHYME IN PROSE, RIME RICHE. The Columbia Guide to Standard American
English. 1993
...Inadvertent rhyme in prose, as in Please clean the screen, can often mar a passage s effectiveness, just as deliberate use of it is a favorite attention-getting device...
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