When there is an entire unstressed syllable following, the rime is called double, or feminine.
Douglas, like his countryman Dunbar, was something of a metrical virtuoso, and his use of internal rime in this ballade is one of his most remarkable achievements.
The Brut of Layamon represents typically the transition period, when alliteration and end-rime were struggling for the mastery in English verse.
The functions of rime in English verse may perhaps be grouped under three heads: the function of emphasis, the function of forming beautiful or pleasurable sounds, and the function of combining or organizing the verses.
The "interlaced" (alternate) rimewas a familiar form.
In some cases, for example, it will be seen that the refrain is a mere appendage or coda to the stanza; in others it is made byrime a part of the organized structure.
In all about five plays of Dryden's are in couplets; after 1678 he rarely returned to rime for the drama.
Originally, the extra internalrime was no doubt the cause of the breaking up of the long couplet into two short lines.
But law and rime were found to be A trifle inconsistent, And now in statutes poetry Is wholly non-existent.
Law and Poetry In days of old did law and rime A common pathway follow, For Themis in the mythic time Was sister of Apollo.
As for Hightown she saw it frozen deep in snow like Jotunheim, and rime lay on it like a place long dead.
It was a blue winter's day, with rime still white on the grass, and the forest was very still.
His work is rugged, and where an occasional fault in rime occurs I have reproduced it.
Fourth, both rhythm and rime being essential elements of every poem in which they are used, I have sought to respect them rigorously.
This is called the classical school, and the rime which the classical poets used is called the heroic couplet.
That is, supposing we take words riming with love and king for our rimes, four lines must rime with love and four with king.
Like Wyatt he wrote sonnets; but whereas Wyatt's are rough, Surrey's are smooth and musical, although he does not keep the rules about rime endings.
For, until he wrote, plays had been written in rimeor blank verse only.
What chiefly makes The Book of Philip Sparrow interesting is that it is the original of our nurseryrime Who Killed Cock Robin?
And they felt the cold rime settling down on grey twig, and good brown leaf.
If Martin muzzle not his mouth, and manacle his hands, Ile blabb all, and not sticke to tell, that pewes and stewes are rime in their religion.
Nay, if rime and reason bee both forestalde, Ile raile, if Martin haue not barrelde vp all rakehell words: if he haue, what care I to knock him on the head with his owne hatchet.
Perhaps her most satisfactory poems, aside from those above mentioned, are 'The Vision of Poets' and 'The Rime of the Duchess May.
French verse, on the other hand, had rime (or assonance) and carefully preserved identity in the total number of syllables in corresponding lines, but it was uncertain as regarded the number of clearly stressed ones.
In the above instance the rime is sacrificed, and I do not mean that all anomalous lines in Spenser's measure become strict decasyllables when done into ME.
It is in rime; mostly decasyllabic couplets, but with free intermixture of alternative rimeand frequent lyrical passages.
The verse is mediocre, and several of the eclogues are composed in the unattractive sestina form, while others affect the wearisomerime sdrucciole.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is Coleridge's chief contribution to the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, and is one of the world's masterpieces.
These are written in therime royal, and are marked by strong poetic feeling and expression.
The same musical measure, arranged in seven-line stanzas, but with a different rime, called the Rime Royal, is found in its most perfect form in Troilus.
In reading the latter, one is scarcely aware that the lines are so delicately balanced that they have no need of rime to accentuate their melody.
Another thing which the reader will note with interest in Restoration literature is the adoption of the heroic couplet; that is, two iambic pentameter lines which rime together, as the most suitable form of poetry.
No rime was used; but a musical effect was produced by giving each half line two strongly accented syllables.
Cloe I scorne my Rime Should obserue feet or time, Now I fall, then I clime, Where i'st I dare not.
This presence delights me, My freedome inuites me, The Season excytes me, In Rime to be merry.
What answered torime was a regular and marked alliteration, each couplet having a certain key-letter, with which three principal words in the couplet began.
The old Teutonic poetry, with its treble system of accent, alliteration, and parallelism, was wholly different from the Romance poetry, with its double system of rime and metre.
But among the Teutonic races poetry was not distinguished by either of the peculiarities–rime or metre–which mark off modern verse from prose, so far as its external form is concerned.
As time went on, and intercourse with other countries became greater, the tendency to rime settled down into a fixed habit.
Its effect is so muffled, go concealed, that I venture to say that many who are quite familiar with the poem, could not declare offhand whether it were written in rime or in blank verse.
Two words rime with one another when there is identity of sound between the last stressed vowels and between any letters which may follow these vowels.
Cuartetas of 12-syllable verse; rime-scheme abab; even verses form either a masculine rime or assonance.
Cuartetas (12-syllable verse); rime in the odd verses; assonance or masculine rime in the even.
Cuartetas (12-syllable verse); odd verses rime; the even either form a masculinerime or are in assonance.
Rime and assonance are hardly less important, but are not strictly speaking essential.
It is evident that in this language too, lacking as it does regular rhythm in its versification, rime is much more necessary than in English.
Irregular meter of 2-syllable verse; rime and blank; the diminuendo effect ends here.
Blank verse is impossible in French, because French with its lack of verbal stress has no other device thanrime to mark the end of a verse.
During the night, as it grew colder, this all condensed as rimeon the inside of the tent, and showered down upon us if one happened to touch the side inadvertently.
The greatest difficulty that was experienced was due to the accumulation of rime on the instruments.
The physicist set up his quadrant electrometer after a good deal of trouble, but throughout the winter had to struggle constantly with rime forming on the parts of his apparatus exposed to the outer air.
The day was clear and bright, with a blue sky overhead and some rime aloft.
The poem is written in a stanza of seven lines (called +Rime Royal+); and the style is a close copy of the style of Chaucer.
Your leaves are constant ever, Not only in the summer time, But through the winter's snow and rime You're fresh and green forever.
This morning when I woke and knew 'twas Christmas come again, I almost fancied I could view whiterime upon the pane, And hear the ringing of the wheels upon the frosty ground, And see the drip that downward steals in icy casket bound.
The four names were all shouted at the same time; the sky, lightened by a magnificent halo, threw pale rays which coloured the frost-rime like clouds, and the summits of the icebergs seemed to emerge from liquid silver.
The second rime is used in the second and fourth lines of the first quatrain and in the first and third of the second quatrain.
The first rime is used in the first and third lines of the first quatrain and in the second and fourth of the second quatrain.
