rhyme
noun
identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
had rhymed
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past perfectof rhyme.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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I cannot but suspect that the Moor for whom he had rhymed, was the giddy son whom Arthur accused him of seducing from the law to the Muses.
From Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850 by Various
The little poem of village living,—of home simpleness and frugal prettiness,—of that, the two first lines alone had rhymed!
From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
Keith did not become interested until the rice appeared and the father declared that no one could taste it until he or she had "rhymed over the rice."
From The Soul of a Child by Edwin Björkman
His Calliope had rhymed with hope, and a gleam of inward entertainment showed itself for one instant in the eyes of Etheridge and Larue.
From Horace Chase by Constance Fenimore Woolson
I had rhymed in my youth and translated French verse, but until I wrote my one sonnet, poetry had been an untried field.
From An Autobiography by Catherine Helen Spence
