The perfect lines with their regular sounding rimes almost weary us at length, and we are glad to turn to the rougher beauty of some earlier poet.
Some doggerel rimes he wrote to his sister show the boy he was, not very unlike other boys.
In these poems the couplet has reached its very highest level, for although his rimes are smooth and polished Goldsmith has wrought into them something of tender grace and pathos which sets them above the diamond-like glitter of Pope's lines.
The melody now prisoned in my rimes Will one day break aloft, and from the throng Of wrestling thoughts and words spring up the air; As from the flower its colour's sweet despair Issues in odour, and the sky's low levels climbs.
This, apart from his other merits, and in spite of his faults, is in itself enough to justify the existence of the rimes cyniques of Mathurin Régnier.
The latter poem is indeed the only one which deserves the imputation conveyed by Boileau's phrase about the author's rimes cyniques.
And further, it rimes with slane, which means 'slain.
The right reading, however, is not now, but avow-e, which rimes well enough.
The author can find no more rimes to rime with fall, so he proceeds to 'shew' or propose another word, viz.
Bold rimes with told, clipped form of told-e, 94; and so on.
But the rimes are much harder to explain away, where they differ from Chaucer's.
I add a few notes, suggested by an examination of the rimes employed.
Pas-se rimes with was, 27; so it must have been cut down to pas!
The Italian scholar will understand that the retention of the feminine rimes in translation from this language is an impossibility.
Footnote: I have here used rimes although the original has none.
He loved his own English tongue, he was skilled in English song, his last work was a translation into English of the Gospel of St. John, and almost the last words that broke from his lips were some English rimes upon death.
I charge you in her name that now is gone, That may coniure you, if you be not stone, That you no harsh, nor shallow rimes decline, Vpon that day wherein you shall read mine.
Spenser changed somewhat the order of the rimes in the first eight lines and added a ninth line of twelve syllables, thus affording more space to the copious luxuriance of his style and the long-drawn sweetness of his verse.
The weak vowel of a diphthong is ignored for riming purposes; thus vuelo rimes with cielo.
Good poets avoid obvious or easy rimes such as those yielded by flexional endings and suffixes.
Each Ballad contains three stanzas of eight lines, with the rimes a b a b b c b c, and the rimes of the second and third stanzas are precisely the same as those of the first.
Considering that loreres rimes with oliveres, it is obvious that the right forms are lorer and loreres (French, loriers); see laurer in Stratmann.
The metre is precisely that of 'Fortune,' resembling that of the Monkes Tale with the addition of a refrain; only the same rimes are used throughout.
Of course the poem cannot be Chaucer's, and it is hardly necessary to look for rimessuch as he never uses; yet such may easily be found, such as grew, pt.
The lines are of the normal length, and arranged with the end-rimes a a b a a b b a b, as in the stanzas marked 1 to 4 above.
The dropped word is clearly here, which rimes with manere in the Miller's Prologue, and elsewhere.
There are more than 70 rimes that differ from those employed by Chaucer.
Koelbing, we find a stanza with the rimes aabccb, followed by one with the rimes aabaab (ll.
The rimes (he says) are chiefly of the most ordinary character, and the poem is very inartificial; see, e.
The necessity for correcting lytel to lyte is obvious from the rime, since lyte is rimes with dytees.
Chaucer seems to make lyte dissyllabic; it rimes with Arcite, Kn.
It exhibits the simplest form of stanza employed by Chaucer, with the rimes arranged in the order a b a b b c b c, and was probably the first French metre which he ever used.
O Rimes are gards on wanton Cupids hose, Disfigure not his Shop Lon.
Note the apparent “feminine” rhymes, torren-sorren, which are really rimes riches in the French style.
It may be that the Cornish ear for rhymes was like the French, and that the explanation is to be sought in a theory like that of the rimes riches and the consonne d’appui of modern French.
He generally secures an equal number of syllables in each line, but he often merely counts them off on his fingers, wrenching the accents all awry, and often violently forcing the rimes as well.
Jawn, andrimes with noon, pronounced as nawn (with aw as in awe).
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.
Walter, the Scot, is forgiven his rimes Because of his tales of stirring times.
The answers to the seventeen rime-words which occur in this stanza do not appear till the following stanza, the same rimes being kept throughout the six stanzas of the poem.
In this case the rimes were known as dissolutas, and the stanza as a cobla estrampa.
A poem with similar rimes and grouped in the same order is attributed to the Countess of Die, the Provençal trobairitz; but this, as M.
Enigmatic constructions, word-plays, words used in forced senses, continual alliteration and difficult rimesproduced elaborate form and great obscurity of meaning.
The use of equivocal and "derivative" rimes as they are called in the Leys d'Amors is seen in the following Anglo-Norman stanzas.
Then fittest are these ragged rimes for mee, 545 To tell my sorrowes that exceeding bee.
Each best day of our life at first doth goe, To them succeeds diseased age and woe; Now die your pleasures, and the dayes you[91] pray Your rimes and loves and jests will take away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rimes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
