BEDE'S explanation, that the rhymesin question "made music for their Irish ear.
BEDE himself suggests that provincialisms may sometimes modify the rhymes of even so correct a versifier as Tennyson.
BEDE, who first called attention to a class of rhymeswhich he denominated "Irish," seems to take it ill that I have dealt with his observations as somewhat "hypercritical.
I acknowledge the justness of his criticism; but I did, and must still, demur to the propriety of calling certain false rhymes peculiarly Irish, when I am able to produce similes from poets of celebrity, who cannot stand excused by MR.
The rhymes of the first two quatrains are usually the same; those of the sestet are variously arranged.
A double rhyme, as pleasure, measure, is also called feminine, while single rhymesare called masculine.
In the original, its rush of rhymes produces on the nerves an almost delirious excitement.
At times, when his nerves were overstrained, he was fatigued by the riot of rhymes which pursued him through his dreams, and which his memory vainly strove to recapture.
If Ibsen ever read these rhymes of circumstance, it must have been to treat them with contempt.
A Book of Rhymes and Tunes[1] contains more than a hundred pretty songs suitable for these household conceits.
If I could be so sharp, so hard in my comment on the day's events, I could not be so soft as I seemed in thoserhymes where I studied the manner of Heine, the manner of Tennyson, and posed in this or that dramatized personality.
It is comical to read that the Monk gave Scott lectures in the art of versification and corrected the Scotticisms and false rhymes in his translations from Bürger; and that Scott respectfully deferred to his advice.
The style is noble, though somewhat artificial: the order of the rhymes conforms neither to the Shaksperian nor the Miltonic model.
But, prithee," continued Sir Oliver, "whose rhymes be these that the child has just spoken?
She repeats the rhymes of Bunner In a fascinating way, And you’ll often find her lost in— She has reveries at times— Some delightful one of Austin Dobson’s rhymes.
And if I twang my lyre at times, They did so then, I reckon; That man’s the best at modern rhymes Whom you can draw a check on!
Humble Parisian bard, this infantile Bouquet ofrhymes I tender half in fear.
Uncertain of my state, I weep and sing, I hope and tremble, and with rhymes and sighs I ease my load, while Love his utmost tries How worse my sore afflicted heart to sting.
What mournful rhymes I wrote and 'rased again, Spending the precious hours of youth in vain!
What should he say, the sighing slave of love, To whom my later rhymes gave hope of bliss, Who for that laurel has lost all--but this?
My slow rhymes struggle not to life the while; I feel it, and whoe'er to-day below, Or speak or write of love will prove it so.
Then shall he say That vainly my weak rhymes to praise her strive, Whose dazzling beams have struck my genius blind:-- He must for ever weep if he delay!
Thy sweets instilling from thy home divine, Thou wakest in me the tone which once was mine, To sing my rhymes Death's power did long deny.
Own, slave of Love, whose eyes these rhymes may catch, Earth has no good that with my grief can match.
Erewhile I labour'd with complaint so true, And in such fervid rhymes to make me heard, Seem'd as at last some spark of pity stirr'd In the hard heart which frost in summer knew.
It made me think of Humphrey, and of the sweet and holy thoughts which he would put into rhymes, and then fit the rhymes with music which seemed to breathe those very thoughts.
William Taylor, from whom I have received a couple of letters full of thought and information, says what astounded me, that double rhymes in our language have always a ludicrous association.
You have repeated the same rhymes ungracefully, and the thought on which you harp so long recalls too forcibly the [Greek: Heudeis brephos] of Simonides.
His lines are weakened with expletives, and his rhymes are frequently imperfect.
The two false rhymes at the outset may not be of great importance, but there is something annoying in the dissyllabic rhymes of the second stanza.
Dissyllabic rhymes are beautiful and enriching when they fall in the right place; that is, where there is a pause for the second little syllable to stand.
I beg to tender those my most cordial thanks who have dealt indulgently with my rhymes hitherto, and to acknowledge, with profound gratitude, the kind encouragement of those great men of letters who have condescended to notice so small a bard.
In addition to the local rhymes given in your pages, I call to mind the following, not inserted in Grose.
Marigold Garden Pictures and Rhymes By Kate Greenaway printed in colours by Edmund Evans London George Routledge and Sons .
Home Poems and Rhymes for the Nursery with "Sea Scribblings" and "The Animal Book" by William Allen Butler Printed for private circulation New York printed at the De Vinne Press 1897.
It is not improbable that he learned the art of making the doggerel rhymes in which he celebrated Crawford's nose from the study of Crawford's own "Kentucky Preceptor.
It must be admitted that the literary taste of the community in which these rhymes were popular could not have been very high.
Dan said: "It must be a great happiness to you to sit down at the close of day and put its events all down in rhymes and poetry, like Byron and Shakespeare and those fellows.
At night the whole is set on fire and boys and girls dance round it, swinging torches and singing rhymes in which the words "corn in the winnowing-basket, the plough in the earth" may be distinguished.
On St. Peter's Day, 22d February, children go from house to house knocking on them with hammers and singing doggerel rhymes in which they bid the Sommervoegel to depart.
She had not had much time for rhymes since she came to Three Chimneys.
I put the rhymes in to show you that their Mother really did understand a little how children feel about things, and also the kind of words they use, which is the case with very few grown-up people.
On the other hand, if Mother now had time for lessons, she also had time for play, and to make up little rhymes for the children as she used to do.
But when we turn away from these prestidigitators of rhymes and rhythms, we find that no view of poetry is less acceptable than this one to poets in general.
The light was growing gray, And therhymes ran so sweet (For I was only a child) That I knelt down to pray.
See Common Sense and Genius, and Rhymesby the Road.
My ragged rhymes are all too rude and base ragged > harsh, discordant rude > rough, uneducated 5 Her heavenly lineaments to enchase.
God wot, With bards and rhymes I would not quarrel.
But, if not rhymes and equal syllables, yet rhythm and melody, moving concurrences of sounds, must for all time be elements of poetic utterance.
To this question we may reply that rhymes and recurrences of equal syllables are indeed no essentials of true poetry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rhymes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
