Complying, he composed the Doctrinale in the year 1199, putting his work into leonine or rhyming hexameter, to make it easier to memorize.
The pre-excellence of this period will likewise appear in accentual rhyming Latin poetry, which was more spontaneous and living than its loftily descended relative.
The third is that of the Sequence, wherein the accentual rhyming hymn springs from the chanted prose, which had superseded the chanting of the final a of the Alleluia.
By the end of the eleventh century Latin poetry in Italy, rhyming or metrical, seems to have drawn itself along as far as it was destined to progress; but in the North a richer growth culminates a century later.
Its ten thousand or more lines of eight-syllable rhyming verse are no longer than the Thebaid of Statius, and as a narrative make quite as interesting reading.
Its qualities were reflected in the Latin versions, which in turn were drawn upon by the Old French rhyming romancers.
Yet it had something of the deadness of imitation, since the vis vivida of song had passed over intorhyming verse.
Moreover, this formal divergence corresponds to a substantial difference, inasmuch as there was usually a larger survival of antique feeling and allusion in the mediaeval metrical attempts than in the rhyming poems.
Her pentameter lines also commonly have a word in the middle rhymingwith the last syllable of the line.
A neat conception this of poetry; and the same writer denounces leonine rhyming as unseemly, but praises the favourite metre of the Middle Ages, the elegiac; for he regards the hexameter and pentameter as together forming the perfect verse.
A thousand literati would have used the rhyming words under the unpoetical rules of ordinary English.
Johnson called 'a kind of rhyming introduction to Lord Somers.
To this must be added the dreary jingle of the verse, which almost invariably consists of short, rhyming couplets, the lines constantly having to be eked out by expletives and meaningless monosyllables.
The so-called Chaucerian stanza consists of seven lines of iambic verse rhyming ababbcc--e.
We find placed rhyming with past; we find the participle saft formed from save.
Perhaps it was that, living far away in the country, Langland had written his poem before he had heard of the new kind of rhyming verses, for news traveled slowly in those days.
Although people had, for many years, been writing rhyming verse, Langland has, you see, gone back to the old alliterative poetry.
It did not have rhymingwords at the end of the lines.
But in rhyming ingenuity Browning is inferior to the author of "Hudibras," in a rhymer's elegant effrontery he is inferior to the author of "Don Juan.
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Browning's joy in difficult rhyming as seen in this serio-grotesque jingle was great; some readers may be permitted to wish that many of his rhymes were not merely difficult but impossible.
And I think the modern poets who try to escape from the rhyming pleasure, in pursuit of a freer poetical pleasure, are making the same fundamentally fallacious attempt to combine simplicity with superiority.
These rhyming scraps remind one constantly of the cante-fable, of the formula-jingles in popular tales.
Greene, he thinks, began the school of gentleman and scholars who wrote for the stage at a time when rhyming plays were in vogue; but none of those which Greene wrote has come down to our day.
From the uncommon facility of rhyming which Dryden possessed, it cost him little labour to compose the most of his serious pieces entirely in rhyme.
This we might also show of the kinds of verse which he least frequently used; for instance, if the rhyming verses of seven and eight syllables, were we not afraid of dwelling too long on merely technical peculiarities.
In England the manner of handling rhyming verse, and the opinion as to its harmony and elegance, have, in the course of two centuries, undergone a much greater change than is the case with the rhymeless Iambic or blank verse.
Not unfrequently scenes, or even single speeches, close with a fewrhyming lines, for the purpose of more strongly marking the division, and of giving it more rounding.
When even the youngest acknowledged that they had enjoyed enough romping for one day, Mary proposed a new amusement of a quieter character, which she had just heard of, entitled "the Rhyming Game.
From the inquiries I have made of various patterers and “paper workers,” I learn that the rhyming Slang was introduced about twelve or fifteen years ago.
Such is a rough description of the men who speak this jargon; and simple and ridiculous as the vulgar scheme of a rhyming Slang may appear, it must always be regarded as a curious fact in linguistic history.
We must not take Reobarles in Marco's French as rhyming to (French) Charles; every syllable sounds.
Still others have the effect upon us of the rhyming prattle invented by children at play.
The following extracts from Heywood give an illustration of his rhyming treatment:-- "The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feete.
Greek, German, Italian and other proverbs equally conform to this custom of aiding the memory by a rhyming treatment; but enough has been brought forward to indicate the point.
A valuable sixteenth century collection of proverbs may be found in a rhymingtreatise written by John Heywood.
But these rhyming adages do not appear to be so characteristic a feature in German proverb-lore as in some other nationalities.
As a sample of the first method of treating the subject may be instanced the testimony borne by this old rhyming adage: "Two things do prolong thy life--a quiet heart and a loving wife.
His proverbs are four hundred and nineteen in number, and he adds to each a rhyming comment of his own.
For even as a baby, I Did pule in rhyme and versify; And the stronger that I grew, My rhyming habit strengthened too, Until my sad sire in despair Put me beneath the Church's care.
For troth I do sing better than methought possible, and my rhyming is none so ill!
Such a phrase as "the place of his dominion" is not suited to ballad composition, nor is the four-line rhyming grateful to the ear, although the measure is all that could be desired.
In making amusing stories in verse, he will be superseded by some newer versifier; what he writes in the way of natural description is merely rhyming nonsense.
Fate seems bent on writing Paradise Lost in blank verse, in my case, and so has no use for a rhyming friend!
It was like the rhyming of a poem; it had to come through the path of the metre.
Back had come the spindle and distaff with the rhyming insult-- "Who boasts of his dead fathers only owns Himself a dog that loveth ancient bones.
It is so, always, when folk take to rhyming couplets, and putting spices to their food.
He twanged the tune on a cithara as he sat on a rock in the moonlight and felt quite light-hearted over his own unworthiness; it fitted so neatly into the rhyming fall .
Beneath each engraving is a rhyming and punning quatrain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rhyming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
