Those nine vary only from the rules of the legitimate Sonnet in that they rhime three, instead of four times in the first part.
Count's a fool, and full of gold] After this line there is apparently a line lost, there being no rhime that corresponds to gold.
Now, where is the rhime to, the rest shall bear this burden?
In fine, they have succeeded; though, it is true, they have more dishonoured rhime by their good success, than they have done by their ill.
Readers of vulgar and mean Tastes may relish Rhime best; and so may Some even of the best Taste; because they have been habituated to it.
But as for the Flatnesses, and low prosaick Expressions, which are not a few, and which even the Rhime neither covers, nor excuses; I will for several Reasons forbear to transcribe any of them.
Ben Jonson is still more specific: "Rhime 'em to death, as they do Irish rats, In drumming tunes.
The rhimeis here a presumptive proof that the poets pronounced this word with the first sound of o, and it is a substantial reason why that pronunciation should be preferred.
This is the sound which the rhime requires in the following verses: "Give eare to me that ten years fought for Rome, Yet reapt all grace at my returning home.
The fashionable pronunciation of wound destroys the rhime and infringes the rule of analogy; two objections to it which can be removed only by universal practice.
This can be done but rarely in rhime; for if it were frequent, the rhime would be in a manner lost by it; the end of almost every verse must be something of a pause; and it is but seldom that a sentence begins in the middle.
I believe we may justly take Notice, that Rhimenever arrived at its true Beauty, never came to its Perfection in England, until long since Shakespeare's Time.
Besides the many Reasons I have already given in Relation to the French, I might add, that their Language is less fit for Tragedy, and the Servitude of their Rhime enervates the Force of the Diction.
You force me still to answer you in that, To furnish out a rhime to Morat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rhime" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
