RHYME

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Poetry, the correspondence of sounds in the last words or syllables of verses. The latter is the true rhyme of modern European languages. There are rhymed verses in the Latin cla ical poets, where the jingle seems intentional, and more distinct examples of it in the fragments of Roman military songs, ., which have come down to us. But in the earlier period of the decay of the Latin language, when accent was substituted for metre in the rhythmical arrangement of the verse, rhyme made its way into the composition of church hymns, . It has been attempted, but with little succe , to deduce this innovation from the Goths, and from the Arabians; but the former, like the old Teutonic races, probably used alliteration, but no rhyme in their verses; and the latter could not have influenced European literature until a period long after that in which rhyme first appears. A rhyme in which the final syllables only agree (strain, complain), is called a male rhyme; one in which the two final syllables of each verse agree, the last being short (motion, ocean), female; and the latter is 1060 [s. 1074]