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Rhyme is a poem composed of lines with similar ending sounds.

(noun)

An example of rhyme is the childrens' poem "Hickory Dickory Dock."

Rhyme is defined as to speak in words or phrases with the same ending sound or to create a written piece out of such phrases.

(verb)

An example of rhyme is to say the words "bike" and "like."
An example of rhyme is what William Blake did when he wrote "The Lamb."

See rhyme in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a piece of verse, or poem, in which there is a regular recurrence of corresponding sounds, esp. at the ends of lines
such verse or poetry in general
correspondence of sound between stressed syllables at the ends of words or lines of verse; specif., perfect rhyme (sense )
a word that corresponds with another in sound, esp. end sound

Origin: ME rime < OFr < rimer, to rhyme, prob. < Frank *rim, row, series, akin to OE, OHG rim, series, number < IE *rei- (> OIr rim, number) < base *are-, to join, fit (> art, ratio, rite): form infl. by assoc. with L rhythmus, rhythm

intransitive verb rhymed, rhyming

to make verse, esp. rhyming verse
to form a rhyme: “more” rhymes with “door”
to be composed in metrical form with rhymes
to be in accord or agreement: the eyewitness accounts rhyme on the essential points

transitive verb

to put into rhyme
to compose in metrical form with rhymes
to use as a rhyme or rhymes

See rhyme in American Heritage Dictionary 4

also rime

noun

Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.
a. A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.
b. Poetry or verse of this kind.
A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold.