rhyme

• In fact, there is so little connection between the subject-matter of Mr. Crabbe's lines and the ornament of rhyme which is tacked to them, that many of his verses read like serious burlesque, and the parodies which have been made upon them are hardly so quaint as the originals. —  The Spirit of the Age
• Dante brings to Italy the "terza rima", or triplet rhyme, which structures the poem in tercets closely linked to the preceding and following rhymes, so that a rhyme is never introduced that has not been framed by two earlier rhymes, with the exception of the first tercet of the canto. —  FP Passport
• "If you teach a child any kind of music or a rhyme, they will actually pick it up quicker," said Coder, who has recovered from her fall. —  Latest News - UPI.com
• Another common type of rhyme is "eye" or "sight" rhyme -- where words are spelled (look) similarly but do not sound alike (the mind makes a connection nonetheless). —  COMIXTALK
• In chansons of late date the full rhyme often replaces assonance; but inducing, as it did in unskilled hands, artificial and feeble expansions of the sense, rhyme was a cause which co-operated with other causes in the decline of this form of narrative poetry Footnote 2: Assonance_, i.e. vowel-rhyme, without an agreement of consonants Footnote 3: Verse of twelve syllables, with cesura after the sixth accented syllable. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.

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