rhymeless
- a word derived from rhyme.
Example Sentences
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But on the whole he is pleasant, his rhymeless phrases are more precisely tooled than Christmas tree ornaments, and the total effect is that of a very small and shaded candle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like thousands of his subjects, he will compose a rhymeless, accentless, 31-syllable tanka entitled Clouds Over Mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was busily breaking dead twigs from bushes to build his morning fire and making up a little rhymeless song about Ivra's birthday as he worked.
From The Little House in the Fairy Wood by Eliot, Ethel Cook
The verse in all his plays is generally the rhymeless Iambic of ten or eleven syllables, occasionally only intermixed with rhymes, but more frequently alternating with prose.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John
Du Bellay advises the adoption of classical words as a means of enriching the French tongue, and speaks with favor of the -180-use of rhymeless verse in imitation of the classics.
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias
