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Meanings of riming in English
Having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds.
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Examples for "rhyming"
Examples for "rhyming"
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I remember the name - the power of a good rhyming title!
2
He and his rhyming partners are still rectifying misconceptions about them today.
3
It was really enthralling and the rhyming element really added to it.
4
A Chippendale, perhaps, with rhyming birthday wishes for some hapless unfortunate inside.
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I think of Candor's rhyming song, which calls us the cruelest faction.
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They seemed well-enough rhymed but somehow mediocre, elegant without substance and power.
2
No sale, no loving, I thought disgustedly, saying it so it rhymed.
3
One of them, a sort of rhymed dialogue, began with the couplet:-
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Hell, I even rhymed on two of the songs on the album.
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It is perhaps of Puritan origin, and rhymed in New England.
Usage of riming in English
1
He was dead asleep, with the frost still riming his lips.
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Both use the riming couplet and are distinguished for their satiric and didactic verse.
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But a correct sonnet ought not to end with a couplet, that is two riming lines.
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In the sestet this is permissible, provided that there is not a riming couplet at the close.
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These two lines show the form of the "riming couplet," which the classical poets adopted.
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Was that frost riming the windowpane?
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On the victim's face, hoarfroast riming the line of his jaw, was an expression of shock and terror.
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It may have been already observed, that to Grizzie came not unfrequently an odd way of riming what she said.
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Slate turned toward them, sword whirling and gathering with it a howl of freezing winds, its blade riming with ice.
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Others there are that have no composition at all; but a kind of tuning and riming fall in what they write.
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It may have been noted that the riming tendency appeared mostly in the start of a speech, and mostly vanished afterwards.
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And this was not all: the riming might have passed unperceived by others too, but for the accompanying tendency to rhythm as well.
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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.
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The third meter is the eight-syllable line with four accents, the lines riming in couplets, as in the "Boke of the Duchesse":
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That is, supposing we take words riming with love and king for our rimes, four lines must rime with love and four with king.
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In 1876 he cast it into a poem, "Sigurd the Volsung," in four books in riming lines of six iambic or anapaestic feet.