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[1] A Book of Ryhmes (the word rhymes is misspelt) [2] is one of six miniature books written by the teenage Brontë, forming part of her juvenilia. [1] [3] Dated 17 December 1829, [4] it measures only 3.8 in × 2.5 in (9.7 cm × 6.4 cm). [1] The book sold for $520 in an auction at Walpole Galleries in New York City in 1916 (equivalent to ...
The number of different possible rhyme schemes for an n-line poem is given by the Bell numbers, [16] which for n = 1, 2, 3, ... are 1, 2, 5, 15, 52, 203, 877, 4140, 21147, 115975, .. (sequence A000110 in the OEIS). Examples: We find one rhyme scheme for a one-line poem (A), two different rhyme schemes for a two-line poem (AA, AB), and five for ...
Dicionário de Rimas, Portuguese-language dictionary of rhymes.. 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.
Initial reversals occur in lines 2 and 6, and potentially in lines 1, 3, 5, and 13. Several phrases which might imply a metrical variant in other contexts are rendered doubtful in this poem because of the frequency with which contrastive accent on pronouns is suggested by both the nature of the story and the meter.
Rhyme royal (or rime royal) is a rhyming stanza form that was introduced to English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. [1] The form enjoyed significant success in the fifteenth century and into the sixteenth century. It has had a more subdued but continuing influence on English verse in more recent centuries.
In fact, they are English-language nursery rhymes written homophonically as a nonsensical French text (with pseudo-scholarly explanatory footnotes); that is, as an English-to-French homophonic translation. [1] The result is not merely the English nursery rhyme but that nursery rhyme as it would sound if spoken in English by someone with a ...
"Arthur o' Bower" is a short British nursery rhyme or rhymed riddle originally published in 1805 but known, on the evidence of a letter by William Wordsworth, to have been current in the late 18th century in Cumberland.
The scholars Iona and Peter Opie noted that many variants have been recorded, some with additional words, such as "O. U. T. spells out, And out goes she, In the middle of the deep blue sea" [3] or "My mother [told me/says to] pick the very best one, and that is Y-O-U/you are [not] it"; [3] while another source cites "Out goes Y-O-U." [4] "Tigger" is also used instead of "tiger" in some ...