Rhyme

(rim.) [FromGr. rhythm os, literally, a measured motion.] (Poet.) The correspondence of sound between the last syllable or syllables of one verse and the last syllable or syllables of a verse following it immediately or at no great distance. To constitute this correspondence in single words or in syllables, it is nece ary that the vowel and the final articulations or consonants should be the same, or have nearly the same sound. The initial consonants may be different, as in live and give, throw and show, . When only the last syllables correspond, it is a male R.; when the two last, it is a female R.; when the three last, it is an Italian form of rhyme termed sdrucciolo-never allowed in English except in burlesque versification. In Arabic and Persic poetry, the correspondence sometimes extends through the entire lines. When the consonants of the last syllables are identical, the rhyme, in English, is faulty. Two syllables may rhyme, though spelled quite differently, thus do and bestrew; and two syllables may not rhyme, though spelled in the same terminal way, as, for instance, home and come. dc.) The [s. 769]