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rhyme is generally a saying, sometimes a proverb or an idiom, couched in the form of a rhyme and often passed down from generation to generation with...

without rhymes, called refractory rhymes—that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. The word "rhyme" here is...

of rhyme is also called approximate rhyme, inexact rhyme, imperfect rhyme (in contrast to perfect rhyme), off rhyme, analyzed rhyme, suspended rhyme, or...

"One for Sorrow" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition, the number of magpies seen tells if one will...

"Something old" is the first line of a traditional rhyme that details what a bride should wear at her wedding for good luck: Something old, something new...

"back in the day, freestyle was bust[ing] a rhyme about any random thing, and it was a written rhyme or something memorized". Divine Styler says: "in the...

Rhyme royal (or rime royal) is a rhyming stanza form that was introduced to English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. The form enjoyed significant success in...

"Something old, something new", a traditional rhyme about what a bride should wear at her wedding for good luck Something old, something new may also...

causes Violet to end their friendship too!   Vocab words: Harmony, Resolve Main villain(s): Rhyme and Reason Part 2:Becky, Violet, Rhyme and Reason are...

title comes from a "Something old, something new", a traditional nursery rhyme concerning a bride's attire. Something Borrowed became an international bestseller...

subverted rhyme, teasing rhyme or mind rhyme is the suggestion of a rhyme which is left unsaid and must be inferred by the listener. A rhyme may be subverted...

form of Cockney slang is made clear with the following example. The rhyming phrase "apples and pears" is used to mean "stairs". Following the pattern...

Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. He is...

English nursery rhyme with the Roud Folk Song Index number 13027. First mentioned in the 18th century, it was early associated with acts of opportunism...

ability to write cleverly and to come up with unexpected, polysyllabic rhymes was something of a trademark, but he also had the even rarer ability to write...

Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic...

ˈriːma]; lit. 'third rhyme') is a rhyming verse form, in which the poem, or each poem-section, consists of tercets (three-line stanzas) with an interlocking...

many other names, is the name of an American schoolyard rhyme in which each verse leads up to a rude word or profanity which is revealed in the next verse...

York) is an English children's nursery rhyme, often performed as an action song. The eponymous duke has been argued to be a number of the bearers of that...

heroic stanza or elegiac stanza consists of the iambic pentameter, with the rhyme scheme of ABAB. An example can be found in the following of Thomas Gray's...