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Pensioner: [35] An older person living on an old-age pension; sometimes used as an insult to refer to aging people draining the welfare system. Peter Pan : A term describing a grown adult, typically a man, who behaves like a child or teenager and refuses, either actively or passively, to act their true age.
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 rhyme, as do spaghetti and already. [4] [5]
Couplets are the most common type of rhyme scheme in old school rap [9] and are still regularly used, [4] though complex rhyme schemes have progressively become more frequent. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Rather than relying on end rhymes , rap rhyme schemes can have rhymes placed anywhere in the bars of music to create a structure. [ 12 ]
Sonnet 144 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
"There's No One Quite Like Grandma" is a song by the Stockport-based primary school choir St Winifred's School Choir, released as a single in November 1980. It was number-one on the UK Singles Chart [ 2 ] from 21 December 1980 to 3 January 1981. [ 3 ]
The concealed entrance to a priest hole in Partingdale House, Middlesex (in the right pilaster) Some have suggested [according to whom?] that this rhyme refers to priest holes—hiding places for itinerant Catholic priests during the persecutions under King Henry VIII, his children Edward, Queen Elizabeth and, later, under Oliver Cromwell.
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Rhyming slang is also used and described in a scene of the 1967 film To Sir, with Love starring Sidney Poitier, where the English students tell their foreign teacher that the slang is a drag and something for old people. [34] The closing song of the 1969 crime caper, The Italian Job, ("Getta Bloomin' Move On" a.k.a. "The Self Preservation ...