They are inserted merely to show that the writer could compose well-rimed stanzas, while he lays no claim whatever to the title of poet.
It is remarkable that these words form a rimed triad or tercet nearly the same with that in the Breton ballad,[490] whence M.
His attack on the customary English rimed verse was answered by the poet laureate, Samuel Daniel, who published in the same year (1602) his Defence of Ryme against a Pamphlet entituled Observations in the Art of English Poesie.
For a specimen of the rimed sestina, see Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Second Series, p.
The rimed form was the earlier, the unrimed being merely a modification of it under the influence of other unrimed metres.
This specimen shows the new measure introduced into the drama in connection with the earlier rimed septenary.
The problem of the relative values of rimed and unrimed verse will come up in connection with the history of the heroic couplet and of blank verse.
On the verse of Dryden's rimed plays, see Schipper, vol.
It was with All for Love that Dryden dropped the use of the rimed couplet in tragedy, and turned his hand toward the construction of really noble blank verse.
Sdruciolla is the Italian term for triple-rimed endings.
The use of rimed couplets in Shakspere's dramas is especially characteristic of his earlier work.
There were chuckles, throttled in gurgling throats, and winks brushed away with the frost which rimed the eyelashes, as the men climbed the ice-notched bank and started across the street to the Post.
Rimed Latin verse was already familiar to the clergy, and was imitated in their works.
Our original English versification, on the other hand, was neither rimed nor rhythmic.
On the poetic side there were three or four occasional poems, and also the rimed epistle called 'The Celebrated Wife', in which the unfortunate husband of a literary lady pours out the tale of his domestic woes.
In irregular rimed verses--the rimes often very Suabian--we hear of sunset glories producing in the bard a divine ecstasy that carries him away through space.
Sister Christophine carried with her through life a vivid memory of his appearance at family worship, when the captain would solemnly intone the rimed prayers that he himself had composed for a private ritual.
A ballad in rimed eight-line stanzas by Ferdinand Freiligrath.
Translation in rimed verses of the Apostrophe to the Sun, Carthon, p.
Translated by von Halem in rimed verses from Edward Jones's Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards, London, 1786, a notice of which had appeared in the Allg.
Translation in rimed eight-line stanzas of the beginning of Berrathon, pp.
The first extract is translated in rimed couplets, the others in free meter.
A rimedtranslation in eight-line stanzas of the Apostrophe to the Sun, Carthon, p.
A poem in rimed quatrains, based upon the episode of Comal and Galvina, Fingal, Bk.
A free rendering in rimed verse of the Episode of Colgorm and Strinadona, Cath-Loda, Duan ii, pp.
Probably Taddy isrimed on Addy as Taggy is on Aggy (Agnes).
Hob is usually regarded as one of the rimed forms from Robert (Chapter VI).
The rimed forms Pol, Polly are later, and names in Pol- usually belong to Paul (Chapter IX).
Andrew flourished naturally in Scotland, its commonest derivative being Anderson, while Dendy is for the rimed form Dandy.
Nobbs and Nabbs, the latter, of course, being sometimes rimed on Abbs, from Abel or Abraham.
Patchett has become confused with Padgett, from Padge, a rimed form of Madge.
According to Camden, there is evidence that Han was also used as a rimed form of Ran, short for Ranolf and Randolf (cf.
So he mused till the boat drove in, ice-rimed and battered, against the edge of the rim-ice.
The form of drama is abandoned, and in its place we have vivid rimed narrative, mingled with glowing pictures of natural scenery, taken at all hours of the day and night.
The style is for the most part rimed stanzas in short metre, which go trippingly on the tongue.
The standard four-lined ballad stanza with rimed alternate lines has continued in popularity with the artificial ballad writers and has been used in such poems as Wordsworth's Lucy Gray and Longfellow's The Wreck of the Hesperus.
The Heroic Couplet, made up of two rimed iambic pentameters, was invented by Chaucer and tried in many of the Canterbury Tales.
Adam de St. Victor, one of the best poets of the XII century, whose sequences and rimed proses fill the liturgy.
At parting they each promised to mend their ways in the matter of letter-writing, Keats holding out the hope, which was not fulfilled, of a rimed epistle to follow.
Such is the contrasted passage of shifting, perplexed meditation on the problems of life, and the failure of the imagination to solve them alone, in the rimed epistle to the same friend six weeks later.
They were written by men of small poetic talent, who rimed carelessly, used the rough-and-ready language of the people, did not shrink from indecency and aimed at dramatic rather than poetic effects.
Some of the poems are written in the Nibelungen meter, or a close approximation to it, others in short rimed couplets, still others in a peculiar stanza of twelve lines.
After the publication of this paper in Scribner's Magazine, a friendly reader in Great Britain was kind enough to copy out for me this Skeltian lyric, which appeared in the London Fun in 1868, and which was probably rimed by Henry S.
After examining carefully the rimes in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Mr. Bradshaw finds that this is the sole instance in which a word which ought etymologically to end in -ye is rimed with a word ending in -y without a following final e.
It is an amateurish performance, partly in prose, partly in verse, either blank or rimed in couplets.
The following is a graceful example in a somewhat conceited vein; the transition, moreover, from blank to rimed measure has an appearance of natural ease.
She then warns him against the dangers of faithlessness in a passage which is a good example of Peele's use of the old rimed versification, and as such deserves quotation.
In both Cintio's pieces the metre is blank verse (hendecasyllabic), diversified in the case of the Egle with a rimed chorus.
The verse is in great part rimed in couplets, and there are frequent attempts at epigrammatic effect, which at times lead to some obscurity.
Since he was primarily a poet it is natural to speak first of his verse; and we must begin with a glance at the history of the rimed pentameter couplet, which he carried to the highest point of effectiveness thus far attained.
But early in his dramatic career he, almost contemporaneously with other dramatists, introduced the rimed couplet, especially in his heroic plays.
The polished rimed couplet, also, pleasing as its precision and smoothness are for a while, becomes eventually monotonous to most readers of a romantic period.
Same of them are in therimed couplet and others in blank verse.
For this sort of effect his rimed couplet provided him an unrivalled instrument, and he especially developed its power in antithesis, very frequently balancing one line of the couplet, or one half of a line, against the other.
He had now begun to write poetry (though thus far rather stiffly and in the rimed couplet), and the receipt of a small legacy from a friend enabled him to devote his life to the art.
Does the rimed pentameter couplet prove itself a possible poetic vehicle for such emotion?
Every reader must decide for himself how far the rimed couplet, in either Dryden's or Pope's use of it, is a proper medium for real poetry.
Collins, born at Chichester, was an undergraduate at Oxford when he published 'Persian Eclogues' in rimed couplets to which the warm feeling and free metrical treatment give much of romantic effect.
The last great change to be noted was inevitable when the plays became popular: they were spoken in English and in rimed verse, with only an occasional tag or stage direction or hymn in Latin to show their origin.
Like the exceptional Tale last discussed, it probably belongs to the late period, although not written in rimed couplets.
We have to discover a specimen of French ten-syllable verse in which only two successive lines are rimed together; and these, I believe, are very scarce.
This passage, like the Prologues in rimed couplets, evidently belongs to the late period; we recognise here some of the author's best work.
There is yet another Middle-English version, in short rimed lines, found in MS.
To say that it was derived from the French ten-syllable verse is not a complete solution of the mystery; for nearly all such verse is commonly either in stanzas, or else a great number of successive lines are rimed together.
Chaucer had used the rimed couplet wonderfully well in his Canterbury Tales, but in Chaucer it is the poetical thought more than the expression which delights us.
It is a long poem, in rimed couplets, giving a survey and criticism of the social life of various countries in Europe, and reflects many of Goldsmith's own wanderings and impressions.
But the Village, when we read it carefully, turns out to be a rimed essay in the style of Pope's famous Essay on Man; it owes its popularity to the sympathetic memories which it awakens, rather than to its poetic excellence.
This was All for Love, which was written in blank verse, most of the others being in rimed couplets.
At the end of each stanza is a rimed refrain, called by the French a "tail rime.
It is marked by youthfulness and exuberance of imagination, by extravagance of language, and by the frequent use of rimed couplets with his blank verse.
His most successful work at this time was his translations, which resulted in the complete Aeneid and many selections from Homer, Ovid, and Juvenal, appearing in English rimed couplets.
The French critic Boileau made an alleged improvement of Horace in his L'Art Poétique, and Pope imitated both writers with his rimed Essay, in which he attempted to sum up the rules by which poetry should be judged.
Throughout his work there are recurrent passages in regular rimed meter.
There are occasional poems, including birthday and wedding greetings, dramatic prologues and epilogues, elegies, and rimed epitaphs.
They went along in rimed pairs, with a place to draw breath near the middle of each line, a slight pause at the end of the first, and a full stop at the end of the second.
But Wigglesworth was trying to write a rimed summary of what everybody thought, in a meter with which everybody was familiar, and he was unqualifiedly successful.
These words apparently are sung, since they are in rimed verse and since song alone would be appropriate for speech in unison.
This Latin play,[73] almost entirely in rimed couplets, is more serious in tone and in general a more elaborate production than the little play by Hilarius.
Now I see this story in type I am inclined to think it is not strictly traditional, like the rest; but that the narrator had acquired it from one of the rimed legends mentioned at p.
The nearest approach to the material of which I was in search was afforded in the roughly printed rimed legends which itinerant venders sell at the church doors on festa days.
The final morning saw us seated betimes at Leaving Breakfast--a quaint Saturnalia whereat all discipline departed and every junior in Hall was compelled to read a rimed criticism of the departing monitors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rimed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
