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The troubadours elaborated a frankly sexual and, I might add, social sensibility in a field of rhyme with little compare in the history of Western literaturein fact, Occitan rhyme's likely connections with Arabic and Hebrew poetry, in forms including the Mozarabic zagal and muwashshah, remain relatively unexplored to this day.
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I've found that students often catch on fairly quickly to rhyme's importance.
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This nursery rhyme's date is fixed by the reference to Old Noll, the
A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green
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Coleridge, who declared that his "muse on dromedary trots," and described him as "rhyme's sturdy cripple."
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914
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_What is the secret of the nursery rhyme's appeal to children?
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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Still for the rhyme's sake (I have always sympathised with the rhymer's difficulties), it was necessary to put the joke on the other leg.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893
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For the rhyme's sake we are friends of the fairies and can put far the evil eye.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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And the 'of old' is redundant, for rhyme's sake, since Rooks hold parliaments now as much as ever they did.
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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Thus universally used the assonance has necessarily been abused, and its excess has given rise to the saying "Al-Saj's faj'a" -- prose rhyme's a pest.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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She loads her arms with rhyme's resounding chains;
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 02: Additional Poems (1837-1848) Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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