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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Like thousands of his subjects, he will compose a rhymeless, accentless, 31-syllable tanka entitled Clouds Over Mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
But Morality is both rhyme and poetry; Progress is at least rhyme; and The Future, though rhymeless again, is the best of all Mr Arnold’s waywardnesses of this kind.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, translated two books of the Aeneid into English rhymeless verse, “drawing” them “into a strange metre.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
