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  • Greek: ῥυθμός (rhythmos, rhythm). The spelling rhyme (from the original rime) was introduced at the beginning of the Modern English period from a learned...
    37 KB (4,845 words) - 19:38, 12 October 2024
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    Gill", particularly in earlier versions) is a traditional English nursery rhyme. The Roud Folk Song Index classifies the commonest tune and its variations...
    17 KB (2,048 words) - 15:19, 29 October 2024
  • Alliteration (redirect from Head rhyme)
    the repeated consonant sound opens the stressed syllable. Head rhyme or initial rhyme involves the creation of alliterative phrases where each word literally...
    30 KB (3,175 words) - 02:09, 26 September 2024
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    Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language. It is especially prevalent among Cockneys in England, and was first used in...
    37 KB (4,109 words) - 10:49, 23 October 2024
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    Rapping (redirect from Street rhyme)
    Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing, or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic...
    93 KB (10,646 words) - 21:35, 13 October 2024
  • A skipping rhyme (occasionally skipping-rope rhyme or jump-rope rhyme), is a rhyme chanted by children while skipping. Such rhymes have been recorded...
    16 KB (2,192 words) - 07:48, 7 July 2024
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    A rime dictionary, rhyme dictionary, or rime book (traditional Chinese: 韻書; simplified Chinese: 韵书; pinyin: yùnshū) is a genre of dictionary that records...
    67 KB (5,001 words) - 17:38, 2 November 2024
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    Oranges and Lemons (category English nursery rhymes)
    "Oranges and Lemons" is a traditional English nursery rhyme, folksong, and singing game which refers to the bells of several churches, all within or close...
    23 KB (1,695 words) - 10:24, 18 October 2024
  • had partial rhyme of consonants with dissimilar vowels, not necessarily at the beginning of the word; the even lines contained internal rhyme in set syllables...
    108 KB (12,611 words) - 05:55, 10 November 2024
  • Rime table (redirect from Rhyme table)
    the syllables of the series of rime dictionaries beginning with the Qieyun (601) by their onsets, rhyme groups, tones and other properties. The method gave...
    37 KB (3,197 words) - 15:49, 21 August 2024
  • Couplet (redirect from Rhyming couplet)
    short coplets, whereto the one halfe beginning, the other halfe should answere." While couplets traditionally rhyme, not all do. Poems may use white space...
    11 KB (1,324 words) - 14:22, 19 September 2024
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    a new epoch. The first four stanzas have four lines each with alternate rhymes, while the fifth (and final) stanza has five lines. The last line of every...
    2 KB (215 words) - 12:12, 10 February 2024
  • Division Rap Battle: Rhyme Anima (Japanese: ヒプノシスマイク -Division Rap Battle- Rhyme Anima, Hepburn: Hipunoshisu Maiku: Division Rap Battle: Rhyme Anima) is an anime...
    22 KB (1,117 words) - 09:00, 22 September 2024
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    Peter Piper (category English nursery rhymes)
    "Peter Piper" is an English-language nursery rhyme and well-known alliteration tongue-twister. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19745. The traditional...
    6 KB (594 words) - 02:25, 18 October 2024
  • A children's song may be a nursery rhyme set to music, a song that children invent and share among themselves or a modern creation intended for entertainment...
    26 KB (3,330 words) - 12:32, 16 September 2024
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    Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross (category English nursery rhymes)
    shall ride till he can ride no more. The modern rhyme is the best known of a number of verses beginning with the line "Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross"...
    7 KB (857 words) - 00:02, 27 October 2024
  • Duran) Randi Rhodes Randi Bueten 1959- American political commentator Busta Rhymes Trevor Smith Jr. 1972- American rapper, songwriter, record producer and...
    356 KB (434 words) - 15:43, 12 November 2024
  • How Many Miles to Babylon? (category English nursery rhymes)
    "How Many Miles to Babylon" is an English-language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 8148. The accepted modern lyrics are: How many...
    8 KB (1,225 words) - 23:58, 26 October 2024
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    Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (category English nursery rhymes)
    popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19621. Modern versions of the rhyme include: Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son...
    5 KB (637 words) - 06:11, 20 February 2024
  • under the title at the beginning of a poem or section of a poem. Hemistich: a half of a line of verse. Internal rhyme: a rhyme that occurs within a single...
    30 KB (3,831 words) - 09:40, 29 September 2024
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