Rhyming does not refer to rhyme but to verse, the rhymer, or lead-singer, singing the couplets of the verses against the sung background of the repeated chorus.

Rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter was by far the most popular structure for poetry of all types.

( Rhyming words ending with a silent " s " " x " or " z " are called " plural rhymes ".

Rhyming slang, in keeping with the rest of the language, is at the mercy of what one might loosely refer to as " false etymology ".

Rhyming slang is used, then described and a number of examples suggested as part of dialogue in one scene of the 1967 film To Sir With Love starring Sidney Poitier.

With one notable exception ( Rhyming Poem ), Anglo-Saxon poetry depends on alliterative verse for its structure and any rhyme included is merely ornamental.

Walker's Rhyming Dictionary, one of the oldest, lists words in alphabetical order of the reversed word, with an appendix covering the differently spelled but homo-phonic endings.

Rhyming words ending with this silent " e " were said to make up a " feminine rhyme ", while words not ending with this silent " e " made up a " masculine rhyme ".

Just as rhyme was seen in some Anglo-Saxon poems ( e. g. The Rhyming Poem, and, to some degree, The Proverbs of Alfred ), the use of alliterative verse continued into Middle English.

Rhyming in the Celtic Languages takes a drastically different course from most other Western rhyming schemes despite strong contact with the Romance and English patterns.

The Rhyming Poem, also written as The Riming Poem, is a poem of 87 lines found in the Exeter Book, a tenth-century collection of Old English poetry.

Rhyming dictionaries for Old English, Elizabethan poetry, or Standard English would have quite different content.

Rhyming slang is believed to have originated in the mid-19th century in the East End of London, with several sources suggesting some time in the 1840s.

Hotten's Dictionary included a " Glossary of the Rhyming Slang ", the first known such work.

Rhyming slang is used mainly in London in England but can to some degree be understood across the country.

Rhyming slang is often used as a substitute for words regarded as taboo, often to the extent that the association with the taboo word becomes unknown over time.

Rhyming slang terms for Jew have included " Chelsea Blue ", " Stick of Glue ", " Four by Two ", " Buckle my shoe ", and " Front Wheel Skid ", which is a more palatable form of the insulting term " Yid ", short for Yiddish, the language spoken by many Jewish immigrants to the UK in the early 20th century.

* Herkimer Fraggle ( performed by Richard Hunt )-A Fraggle who serves as the property caretaker of Rhyming Rock.

* Uncle Gobo ( performed by Jerry Nelson )-Uncle Traveling Matt's uncle, Gobo's great-uncle and greatest Fraggle explorer only seen in flashbacks as seen in " Born to Wander " and " The Riddle of Rhyming Rock.

Rhyming slang was particularly used in British comedy to refer to things which would be unacceptable to a polite audience.

Others involved Bert wanting to pursue a boring or unreasonable hobby but Ernie asks him to play a simple game with him ( The Rhyming Game IE ) but when Bert refuses Ernie makes puns to get him into the game and finally when Bert begins to enjoy himself Ernie wants to do something else and asks him and Bert to desert the game much to Bert's dismay.

The title Masnavi-I Ma ' navi means " Rhyming Couplets of Profound Spiritual Meaning.

We deliberately perpetrated bad verse, and selected awkward rhymes from a Ripman's Rhyming Dictionary.

Rhyming songs kept the names of Cagot families known.

As a girl she contributed verses and tales to magazines under the pseudonym of Orris, but her first ( anonymous ) volume, A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings, which came from an established London publisher, did not appear until her thirtieth year.

It should be noted, however, that Rhyming Slang can be traced only as early as the 1840s, whereas the phrase " green room " predates this by several centuries, making such an etymology unlikely.

Zauriel is given the mission to destroy the Shadowpact member Blue Devil, who has been demoted to the rank of a Rhyming Demon in Hell's hierarchy.

" The Errors in The Rhyming Poem.

The group's first album, Orange Rhyming Dictionary, was released on Jade Tree Records in 1998.

The dramatic works of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine are typically composed of rhyming alexandrine couplets.

Usually, only the second and fourth line of a quatrain are rhymed ( in the scheme a, b, c, b ), which has been taken to suggest that, originally, ballads consisted of couplets ( two lines ) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables.

Couplets with a meter of iambic pentameter are called heroic couplets.

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are written in rhyming couplets.

Here are some examples of rhyming couplets where the sense as well as the sound " rhymes ":

Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between " epigram " and " elegy " is sometimes indistinct ( they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets ); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise.

The mêmrê are written in a heptosyllabic couplets ( pairs of lines of seven syllables each ).

Some of these compositions are in verse, often a version of Ephrem's heptosyllabic couplets.

These are written in rhyming couplets, and again draw on French models such as Chrétien de Troyes, many of them relating Arthurian material, for example, Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach.

The term " heroic couplet " is sometimes reserved for couplets that are largely closed and self-contained, as opposed to the enjambed couplets of poets like John Donne.

English heroic couplets, especially in Dryden and his followers, are sometimes varied by the use of the occasional alexandrine, or hexameter line, and triplet.

There are numerous examples from the 16th century and a few from the 17th ; the most prominent of these is Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion ( 1612 ) in couplets of iambic hexameter.

The lines are generally end-stopped, considered as a series of couplets, and exhibit verbal parallelism as a key poetic device.

A poetic triplet is a tercet in which all three lines follow the same rhyme, a a a ; triplets are rather rare ; they are more customarily used sparingly in verse of heroic couplets or other couplet verse, to add extraordinary emphasis.

Metrically its six-character lines are formed into couplets separated in the middle by a strong caesura character ( as the seventh character of the first line ), producing a driving and dramatic rhythm.

and other couplets are repeated with few or no changes elsewhere in the text.

The collection of verses attributed to Theognis has no overall structure, being a continuous series of elegiac couplets featuring frequent, sudden changes in subject and theme, in which different people are addressed and even the speaker seems to change persona, voicing contradictory statements and, on a couple of occasions, even changing sex.

His tragedies are a stultification of the classical method ; their Alexandrine couplets are exceedingly harsh ; their characters are marionettes.

His third work is the Confessio Amantis, a 30, 000-line poem in octosyllabic English couplets, which makes use of the structure of a Christian confession ( presented allegorically as a confession of sins against Love ) as a narrative frame within which a multitude of individual tales are told.

These first-person narrative poems ( all but one are written in octosyllabic rhymed couplets, like the romance, or " roman " of the same period ) follow many of the conventions of the Roman de la rose, including the use of allegorical dreams ( songes ), allegorical characters, and the situation of the narrator-lover attempting to return toward or satisfy his lady.