A Text-book on Rhetoric (1882) |
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... RHYME . - Rhyme is the accordance in sound of the final syllables of verses . A couplet is the two verses which rhyme with each other . The rhyming syllables must not be completely identical in sound but only simi- lar - identical from ...
... RHYME . - Rhyme is the accordance in sound of the final syllables of verses . A couplet is the two verses which rhyme with each other . The rhyming syllables must not be completely identical in sound but only simi- lar - identical from ...
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... rhyme with the corresponding syllable in the other . Such rhymes , called triple rhymes , are illustrated in the first and third verses below : - Take her up tenderly , Lift her ... rhyme , line - rhyme Line - Rhyme and Alliteration . 249.
... rhyme with the corresponding syllable in the other . Such rhymes , called triple rhymes , are illustrated in the first and third verses below : - Take her up tenderly , Lift her ... rhyme , line - rhyme Line - Rhyme and Alliteration . 249.
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... Rhyme in English is more difficult than it is in lan- guages highly inflected , and abounding in common terminations . It has been estimated that casting out the English words incapable of rhyme , the ratio of those which have rhymes to ...
... Rhyme in English is more difficult than it is in lan- guages highly inflected , and abounding in common terminations . It has been estimated that casting out the English words incapable of rhyme , the ratio of those which have rhymes to ...
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