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RhymeZone has two websites, one for the Spanish language and one for the English language. The Spanish website is named rimar.io [1] (or Rhyme.io when translated to English), while the English website is named rhymezone.com. Rhymezone also has an app for iOS, [2] Android, [3] and Amazon Alexa. In Google Docs, Rhymezone has its own add-on called ...
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]
The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes —that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwards.
Perfect and imperfect rhymes. Perfect rhyme — also called full rhyme, exact rhyme, [1] or true rhyme — is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions: [2][3] The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. For example, the words "kit" and "bit" form a perfect ...
References. External links. Rhyme scheme. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea, who may Command him ...
Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg, though he is not explicitly described as such. The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth-century England and the tune from ...
Little Miss Muffet. " Little Miss Muffet " is an English nursery rhyme of uncertain origin, first recorded in 1805. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605. The rhyme has for over a century attracted discussion as to the proper meaning of the word tuffet.
Alliteration. Alliteration is the repetition of syllable -initial consonant sounds between nearby words, or of syllable-initial vowels, if the syllables in question do not start with a consonant. [ 1 ] It is often used as a literary device. A common example is " P eter P iper p icked a p eck of p ickled p e pp ers," in which the "p" sound is ...