Rhythm vs. Rhyme

Rhythmnoun

The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.

Rhythmnoun

A specifically defined pattern of such variation.

Rhythmnoun

A flow, repetition or regularity.

Rhythmnoun

The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.

Rhythmnoun

The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.

Rhythmnoun

A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.

Rhythmnoun

Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.

Rhythmnoun

In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.

Rhythmnoun

Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.

Rhythmnoun

A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.

Rhythmnoun

The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.

Rhythmnoun

the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music;

Rhythmnoun

recurring at regular intervals

Rhythmnoun

an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs;

Rhythmnoun

the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements;

Rhythmnoun

natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)

Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, —Liddell and Scott 1996) generally means a (Anon. 1971, 2537).

Rhymenoun

Rhyming verse (poetic form)

Rhymenoun

A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.

Rhymenoun

(countable) A word that rhymes with another.

Rhymenoun

A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.

Rhymenoun

(uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of sound of part of some words.

Rhymenoun

(linguistics) rime

Rhymenoun

(obsolete) Number.

Rhymeverb

(ambitransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.

Rhymeverb

Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.

Rhymeverb

(reciprocal) Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.

Rhymeverb

To number; count; reckon.

Rhymenoun

An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.

Rhymenoun

Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any.

Rhymenoun

Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.

Rhymenoun

A word answering in sound to another word.

Rhymeverb

To make rhymes, or verses.

Rhymeverb

To accord in rhyme or sound.

Rhymeverb

To put into rhyme.

Rhymeverb

To influence by rhyme.

Rhymenoun

correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

Rhymenoun

a piece of poetry

Rhymeverb

compose rhymes

Rhymeverb

be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable;

Rhymenoun

correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry

Rhymenoun

a short poem in which the sound of the word or syllable at the end of each line corresponds with that at the end of another

Rhymenoun

rhyming poetry or verse

Rhymenoun

a word that has the same sound as another

Rhymeverb

(of a word, syllable, or line) have or end with a sound that corresponds to another

Rhymeverb

(of a poem or song) be composed in rhyme

Rhymeverb

put a word together with (another word that has a corresponding sound), as when writing poetry

Rhymeverb

compose verse or poetry

Rhyme

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually, exactly the same sound) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of perfect rhyming is consciously used for artistic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs.