Rhyme

: This article is about the poetic technique. For the form of ice, see rime ice. For linguistic rime (or rhyme) see syllable rime.

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A rhyme is a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words and is most often used in poetry. The term usually refers to the repetition of sounds at the end of rhymed words: in the following poem by A.E. Housman, the words or syllables in bold are rhymes:

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:Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

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:Is hung with bloom along the bough,

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:And stands about the woodland ride

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:Wearing white for Eastertide.

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"Rhyme" may also refer to a complete rhyming couplet or short poem that uses verses (see nursery rhyme). As "sight rhyme", it refers to words which are identical only in their written forms: for example "love" and move".

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Rime ice: REDIRECT Hard rime...

Syllable rime: In the study of phonology in linguistics, the rime or rhyme of a syllable consists of a nucleus and an optional coda. In the study of Chinese languages, rimes are better known as finals or in Chinese, yunmu (PY: y?nmǔ, TC: 韻母, SC: 韵母)....

Poetry: Poetry (ancient Greek: ????? (poieo) = I create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. It consists largely of oral or literary works in which language is used in a manner that is felt by its user...

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