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• v  compose rhymes
• v  be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
• a  having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds
  rhyming words

• Peasants in Sichuan used to say, "yao chi liang, Zhao Ziyang "a rhyming pun meaning "If you want to eat, Zhao is your man.
• I somehow decided that doing a book of rhyming couplets would sort of drone on after a while, so I decided to interrupt it with what we're calling "embedded poems.
• That air of discriminating toughness was hardened during her marriage, which was, as much as anything, a rhyming of opposites, a marriage of public and private.

• rhyme
• rime
• rhymed
• riming

• unrhymed

News & Articles

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• Stocks: Not When to Get in, But How
  For decades, Wall Street has provided investors with a bit of supposed seasonal wisdom this time of year in the form of a rhyming slogan: "Sell in May and go away." But does that make any sense?        
  June 20, 2013 - ABC News
• Stocks: Time to Hit the Exits?
  For decades, Wall Street has provided investors with a bit of supposed seasonal wisdom this time of year in the form of a rhyming slogan: "Sell in May and go away." But does that make any sense?        
  June 20, 2013 - ABC News

Quotes

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• Steve Martin in Washington Post
  I'm not sure why I did this. I don't know why an alphabet book popped into my head,Martin says of "The Alphabet From A to Y, With Bonus Letter Z," a collaboration with New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. "My idea was to write these rhyming...
• Joaquin Phoenix in International Herald Tribune
  I love the storytelling aspects of hip-hop, but I love the wordplay, as well,Phoenix said. "I just think the rhyming is fantastic, and I love, like, the raw emotion of it."
• Rahzel in Billboard
  It's still hip-hop,Rahzel tells Billboard.com. "It's like the music I grew up on, the music that made all of these things that are present now in existence. So I'm continuing that with raw beats, raw rhymes, beat-boxing, rhyming. The whole...