Verb (used without object) : a word that rhymes with orange. ,poetry that rhymes. From Dictionary.com.
Mr. Nicholson's poems are a kind of riming journal of his heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century] Reference
The most important quatrains are the ballad stanza, riming. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
TRIOLET, a French metrical form, mainly for light themes, riming. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
He awoke with a start, a thin film of sweat riming his upper lip. From Wordnik.com. [Floating City]
Ai spesshullee laiks teh riming ov “splort” and “cohort.”. From Wordnik.com. [Furwall… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
But a correct sonnet ought not to end with a couplet, that is two riming lines. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Alexandrine lines and of frequent triplets, three lines instead of two riming together. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Sunlight filtered through the tall honey locusts riming in gold the peonies and azaleas. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
Then it spasmed into rigidity, and then froze, literally, frost riming all over its body. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Sweat froze along their backs, riming them, making them into creatures of the winter countryside. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
That is, supposing we take words riming with love and king for our rimes, four lines must rime with love and four with king. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Whence the riming Poesie came first to the Greekes and Latines, and how it had altered, and almost spilt their maner of Poesie. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
I could speak of Chicago lyrically, riming "bored lookin 'skaters" with "some folks'll see friendship as favors", something like that. From Wordnik.com. [joegood Diary Entry] Reference
And the heron high in the mists, and the hoar frost riming. From Wordnik.com. [The Wood Carver's Wife] Reference
"You would see that at the first glance, if you were used to riming.". From Wordnik.com. [There & Back] Reference
But that which giveth greatest scope to their scorning humor is riming and versing. From Wordnik.com. [The Defense of Poesy] Reference
"Sigurd the Volsung," in four books in riming lines of six iambic or anapaestic feet. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
It is already said, and as I think truly said, it is not riming and versing that maketh poesy. From Wordnik.com. [The Defense of Poesy] Reference
Polly, on page 7, 4aabb indicates a quatrain riming in couplets, with four stresses in each line. From Wordnik.com. [A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs] Reference
It contains a large proportion of riming lines, which is usually a sign in Shakspere of early work. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
This he brought out again in 1661, with the dialogue recast into riming couplets in the French fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
Others there are that have no composition at all; but a kind of tuning and riming fall in what they write. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I] Reference
It may have been already observed, that to Grizzie came not unfrequently an odd way of riming what she said. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference
It gave English poetry a didactic turn and started the fashion of writing critical essays in riming couplets. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
In Jackaro, page 9, 3abcb indicates a quatrain riming alternately, with three stressed syllables in each line. From Wordnik.com. [A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs] Reference
ONE, TWO, COME BUCKLE MY SHOE, 2aa, 10: A sequence of riming half-lines, each containing a digit up to twenty. From Wordnik.com. [A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs] Reference
It may have been noted that the riming tendency appeared mostly in the start of a speech, and mostly vanished afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference
And this was not all: the riming might have passed unperceived by others too, but for the accompanying tendency to rhythm as well. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference
In compliment to him Chaucer's stanza of seven lines (riming. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Mickiewicz improvised a verse riming. From Wordnik.com. [Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812] Reference
Hanch against Hanch, or raise a riming Club. From Wordnik.com. [The Battaile of Agincourt] Reference
TAIL-RIME STANZA, one usually of six lines riming. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
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