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  2. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of rhyming (perfect rhyming) is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs. [1]

  3. List of closed pairs of English rhyming words - Wikipedia

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    In an amphibrachic pair, each word is an amphibrach and has the second syllable stressed and the first and third syllables unstressed. attainder, remainder; autumnal, columnal; concoction, decoction (In GA, these rhyme with auction; there is also the YouTube slang word obnoxion, meaning something that is obnoxious.) distinguish, extinguish

  4. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    It has only 2 rhymes, with the opening words used twice as an un-rhyming refrain at the end of the 2nd and 3rd stanzas. Virelai; Found poem: a prose text or texts reshaped by a poet into quasi-metrical lines. Haiku: a type of short poem, originally from Japan, consisting of three lines in a 5, 7, 5 syllable pattern. [2]

  5. Rhyming dictionary - Wikipedia

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    A rhyming dictionary is a specialized dictionary designed for use in writing poetry and lyrics. In a rhyming dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words that rhyme with one another. They also typically support several different kinds of rhymes and possibly also alliteration as well.

  6. Hark, Hark! The Dogs Do Bark - Wikipedia

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    Closer to using the word to date the rhyme to the Tudor period is Linda Alchin's The Secret History of Nursery Rhymes. In her text, Alchin defines the word jags and explicitly links it to Tudor-period fashion. But she does not go so far as to say that the use of the word itself dates the rhyme to that period. [24] [25]

  7. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    Included in Robert Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland from 1842. Hot Cross Buns: Great Britain 1767 [43] This originated as an English street cry that was later perpetuated as a nursery rhyme. The words closest to the rhyme that has survived were printed in 1767. Humpty Dumpty: Great Britain 1797 [44]

  8. Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check - Wikipedia

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    It has a duration time of four minutes and thirty-one seconds. [5] The song features "cleverly-written" lyrics with a "manic delivery" over an "infectious" instrumental. For each of the three verses, the last word in each lyric rhymes with one another. [6] Furthermore, Rhymes references his then-two year old son T'ziah Wood-Smith.

  9. Little Robin Redbreast - Wikipedia

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    An illustration for the rhyme from The Only True Mother Goose Melodies (1833). Children's literature portal ‘Little Robin Redbreast’ is an English language nursery rhyme, chiefly notable as evidence of the way traditional rhymes are changed and edited.