Meanings of riming in English

He was dead asleep, with the frost still riming his lips.

Both use the riming couplet and are distinguished for their satiric and didactic verse.

But a correct sonnet ought not to end with a couplet, that is two riming lines.

In the sestet this is permissible, provided that there is not a riming couplet at the close.

These two lines show the form of the "riming couplet," which the classical poets adopted.

Was that frost riming the windowpane?

On the victim's face, hoarfroast riming the line of his jaw, was an expression of shock and terror.

It may have been already observed, that to Grizzie came not unfrequently an odd way of riming what she said.

Slate turned toward them, sword whirling and gathering with it a howl of freezing winds, its blade riming with ice.

Others there are that have no composition at all; but a kind of tuning and riming fall in what they write.

It may have been noted that the riming tendency appeared mostly in the start of a speech, and mostly vanished afterwards.

And this was not all: the riming might have passed unperceived by others too, but for the accompanying tendency to rhythm as well.

The norm of the verse was the eight-syllabled riming couplet used in most of the English metrical romances of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

The third meter is the eight-syllable line with four accents, the lines riming in couplets, as in the "Boke of the Duchesse":

That is, supposing we take words riming with love and king for our rimes, four lines must rime with love and four with king.

In 1876 he cast it into a poem, "Sigurd the Volsung," in four books in riming lines of six iambic or anapaestic feet.