Its author was a Netherlander of knightly rank who finished his poem in Thuringia and was regarded by his successors as the father of the riming love-romance.
The poem consists of 420 short lines in riming (assonating) couplets.
In his Erinnerung an den Tod, a satirical poem of 1042 short lines in riming (assonating) couplets, he inveighs against the worldly follies of the knights, and in his Priesterleben against the vices of the clergy.
Of these spellings sey (riming with hey) is to be preferred in most cases.
In his earlier poems, he has the older form abrayd, riming with sayd (pp.
Note that he actually seems to have read dairies and faeries as [315] riming dissyllabic words!
This at once gives the examples is went, [414] riming with pp.
Tragedie; accented on the second syllable, and rimingwith remedie; cf.
Of course, by me should have been printed as two words, riming with ti-me.
The riming of the two former syllables is unessential, and for the purpose of rime, accidental and otiose.
It may have been noted that the riming tendency appeared mostly in the start of a speech, and mostly vanished afterwards.
It may have been already observed, that to Grizzie came not unfrequently an odd way of riming what she said.
And this was not all: the riming might have passed unperceived by others too, but for the accompanying tendency to rhythm as well.
The second, written about a century later, is from the riming chronicle, or verse history, of Robert Manning or Robert of Brunne.
Italian, a 14-line stanza composed of two quatrains riming abba and two tercets riming cde cde (cde dee, etc.
Three-Line Stanza Stanzas of three lines riming aaa (called tercets or triplets) are not very common.
I took occasion to complain of the riming of now with rescow-e in ll.
Printed as prose in Thynne; but two riming verses seem to be intended.
So also we find pretily rimingwith be in The Flower and the Leaf, 89.
The sense is that unlike things may be brought together, like riming words, but they will not on that account agree.
The norm of the verse was the eight-syllabled rimingcouplet used in most of the English metrical romances of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
In 1876 he cast it into a poem, "Sigurd the Volsung," in four books in riming lines of six iambic or anapaestic feet.
Before deciding upon the heroic blank verse and a loosely epic form, as most fitting for his purpose, Tennyson had retold passages of Arthurian romance in the ballad manner and in various shapes of riming stanza.
And again, we find to sene, riming with grene, A 1035.
But a real exception occurs in the rimingof lere, to teach, with here, here (T.
In both these stanzas we find the riming words spoken, wroken, broken, which obviously belong to the same set.
In the Death of Blaunche, 773, we find dere (dear) riming with were, were.
E 882, we find were rimingwith dere; but, after all, dere (see s.
Art could change the prose into metrical riming lines, but art could not breathe into them the living soul of poetry.
An eighteenth-century classicist actually endeavored to improve Hamlet's soliloquy by putting it in riming couplets.
A later romantic poet called the rimingcouplet "rocking-horse meter"; and said that the reading of many couplets reminded him of round trips on a rocking-horse.
These two lines show the form of the "riming couplet," which the classical poets adopted.
Both use the riming couplet and are distinguished for their satiric and didactic verse.
It gave English poetry a didactic turn and started the fashion of writing critical essays in riming couplets.
This he brought out again in 1661, with the dialogue recast into riming couplets in the French fashion.
It contains a large proportion ofriming lines, which is usually a sign in Shakspere of early work.
Grein believes him to have been the author also of the Riming Poem, but, as Rieger points out, the rimes of Cynewulf are of a much less systematic character.
It is already said (and as I think, truly said) it is not riming and versing that maketh poesy.
Similarly, in septenary verse internal rime was often used together with end-rime, with a resulting resolution into short-line stanzas riming either aabb or abab.
Full rime, or end-rime, involves the principally stressed vowel in the riming word, and all that follows that vowel.
In this case the tercets are united in groups of three to form a strophe of fourteen lines together with a final coupletriming with the middle line of the preceding tercet.
The characteristic feature of this stanza is the presence of two short lines riming together and serving as "tails" to the first and second parts of the body of the stanza.
In Sir Gawayne the rimeless long line is gathered into strophes, each of which concludes with four riming lines.
The Riming Poem suggests what development rime might have had in English without the incoming of Romance influences.
It is not riming and versing that maketh a poet, no more than a long gown maketh an advocate; who, though he pleaded in armor, should be an advocate and no soldier.
The rimes in all the stanzas must be identical in the corresponding lines, but the riming words must be different.
Most critics prefer those forms of sestet which avoid a final riming couplet.
Spenser's stanza is in nine lines, eight of five feet each and the last of six feet, riming ababbcbcc.
We shall note here only one or two marked literary types, like the Riming Chronicle (or verse history) and the Metrical Romance, and a few writers whose work has especial significance.
This is the most important of the English riming chronicles, that is, history related in the form of doggerel verse, probably because poetry is more easily memorized than prose.
But a correct sonnet ought not to end with a couplet, that is two riming lines.
That is, supposing we take words riming with love and king for our rimes, four lines must rime with love and four with king.
Whence the riming Poesie came first to the Greekes and Latines, and how it had altered, and almost spilt their maner of Poesie.
How the riming Poesie came first to the Grecians and Latines, and had altered and almost split their maner of Poesie.
I 43), Tyrwhitt says that perhaps cadence means 'a species of poetical composition distinct fromriming verses.
The Prologue, in the usual riming couplets, is evidently later than the Tale, and was supplied at the time of revision.
From its inherent superiority, it at once became the established form for the drama, still mingled, however, with riming couplets and stanzas.
On the other hand, the adjacent or riming lines sometimes terminate in the same word.
The matter is, however, put out of dispute by the Poems, in which Shakespeare himself spells it hear when riming with tear and ear.
There is something evidently lost here, riming with 'steel.
Lastly, the occurrence in the 4tos of numerous riming couplets which are not in the folio, completely upsets Mr. Collier's theory of that edition having been made up from memory, and from notes taken at the theatre.
This is in blank verse, in general strictly decasyllabic, mingled with the riming measures above noticed.
A line riming with this, before, or after, seems lost.
A little later, I think, than the two preceding plays; for there is only one riming passage in it.
Sotheby had invented a modified form of the Spenserian stanza riming abbaccddc instead of abcbbdbdd and keeping the final alexandrine.
It established blank verse, with occasional riming couplets at the close of a scene or of a long speech, as the language of the tragedy and high comedy parts, and prose as the language of the low comedy and "business" parts.
Formally this group is marked by the use of a peculiar nine-lined stanza, riming a a a a b c c c b, with central rimes in the first four lines.
The presence of alternate riming sonnets and doggerel rime on the one hand, and of a number of double endings on the other, render 1592 a reasonable date.
It does not follow that the chronological order of the individual plays could be exactly determined by their percentage of riming lines, for subject matter makes a great difference.
In Jackaro, page 9, 3abcb indicates a quatrain riming alternately, with three stressed syllables in each line.
Thus in Pretty Polly, on page 7, 4aabb indicates a quatrain riming in couplets, with four stresses in each line.
He ends the line with galles, riming with halles and walles; whereas the line should end with a word riming to shete, as, e.
Northern certis (in place of Chaucer's certes), rimingwith is.
A 2550; and were (were) also riming with spere, Ho.
Chaucer has were, to defend, rimingwith spere, Cant.
Tales, the rime erme, terme, occurs only once, and there is no third wordriming with either.
It is an obvious error for Sarsinesshe (riming with fresshe); for the F.
He would therefore have had no hesitation in riming these words together; and we cannot doubt that he here did so.
In order to shew the riming more clearly, I have 'set back' the 3rd, 6th, and 7th lines of each stanza.
One point about this poem is its very peculiar metre; the 5-line stanza, riming a a b b a, is certainly rare.
Seeing that the original has gonfanon, it is clear that Chaucer wrote gonfanoun, riming with renoun.
Then, because man is the noblest of all created things, the author proceeds to give a list of the parts of his body, which recalls the old riming vocabularies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
