rhyme
noun
identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
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
Here is an attempt to translate its three rhymeless stanzas into prose; but the childish sweetness of the patois original is lost:—
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
It was a young poet, a poet rhymeless and inarticulate, who huddled behind the shield of untrimmed currant bushes, and thought of the girl he would never see again.
From Free Air by Sinclair Lewis
Even the rhymeless flow of blank verse is absolutely necessary to an accurate and entire perception of the effect the author intends to produce: it is in both cases as the colouring to a picture.
From The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends by An English Lady
