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Bouts-Rimés. Bouts-Rimés ( French, literally 'rhymed-ends') is the name given to a kind of poetic game defined by Addison in the Spectator as "lists of words that rhyme to one another, drawn up by another hand, and given to a poet, who was to make a poem to the rhymes in the same order that they were placed upon the list".
Rhyme scheme. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea, who may Command him Anything", by Robert Herrick :
Perfect and imperfect rhymes. Perfect rhyme — also called full rhyme, exact rhyme, [ 1] or true rhyme — is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions: [ 2][ 3] The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. For example, the words "kit" and "bit" form a ...
The following is a list of English words 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 used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwards.
Discov'ring poetry no numerals jarred. Note that in this example, 10-letter words are used to represent the digit zero. Other poems use sound as a mnemonic technique, as in the following poem [13] which rhymes with the first 140 decimal places of pi using a blend of assonance, slant rhyme, and perfect rhyme: dreams number us like pi. runes shift.
Missouri Poet Laureate David L. Harrison checks in with a column about couplets, which poets like Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot used to great effect.
The rhyme is very well known; Edward Carney calls it "this supreme, and for many people solitary, spelling rule". [1] However, the short form quoted above has many common exceptions; for example: ie after c : species, science, sufficient, society ei not preceded by c : seize, vein, weird, heist, their, feisty, foreign, protein
The word rhyme can be used in a specific and a general sense. In the specific sense, two words rhyme if their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical; two lines of poetry rhyme if their final strong positions are filled with rhyming words. Examples are sight and flight, deign and gain, madness and sadness, love and dove.