Example Sentences
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If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed snow crystal can grow to an appreciable size, but remain less than 0.2 inches.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2023
In Sir Gawayne the rimeless long line is gathered into strophes, each of which concludes with four riming lines.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
Thus in Pretty Polly, on page 7, 4aabb indicates a quatrain riming in couplets, with four stresses in each line.
From A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs by Combs, Josiah Henry
In the sestet this is permissible, provided that there is not a riming couplet at the close.
From Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by Wordsworth, William
Mickiewicz improvised a verse riming Domejko with Dowejko.
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Noyes, George Rapall
