Having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds.
1He was dead asleep, with the frost still riming his lips.
2Both use the riming couplet and are distinguished for their satiric and didactic verse.
3But a correct sonnet ought not to end with a couplet, that is two riming lines.
4In the sestet this is permissible, provided that there is not a riming couplet at the close.
5These two lines show the form of the "riming couplet," which the classical poets adopted.
6Was that frost riming the windowpane?
7On the victim's face, hoarfroast riming the line of his jaw, was an expression of shock and terror.
8It may have been already observed, that to Grizzie came not unfrequently an odd way of riming what she said.
9Slate turned toward them, sword whirling and gathering with it a howl of freezing winds, its blade riming with ice.
10Others there are that have no composition at all; but a kind of tuning and riming fall in what they write.
11It may have been noted that the riming tendency appeared mostly in the start of a speech, and mostly vanished afterwards.
12And this was not all: the riming might have passed unperceived by others too, but for the accompanying tendency to rhythm as well.
13The norm of the verse was the eight-syllabled riming couplet used in most of the English metrical romances of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
14The third meter is the eight-syllable line with four accents, the lines riming in couplets, as in the "Boke of the Duchesse":
15That is, supposing we take words riming with love and king for our rimes, four lines must rime with love and four with king.
16In 1876 he cast it into a poem, "Sigurd the Volsung," in four books in riming lines of six iambic or anapaestic feet.