This anapaestic rhyme comes from Westmounter Harry Mayerovitch, author of Limericks for Hereticks. |
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Astrud's little-girl voice could be singing a nursery rhyme, for the absent-minded ease with which she delivers this classic by The Doors. |
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The title should change every time a new poet is appointed and should alliterate or rhyme with the name of the new holder of the title. |
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The twin bedroom is particularly charming and is now a children's room with nursery rhyme wallpaper and decorative features. |
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It's not just the final syllable of the word that must rhyme, but everything from the final syllable back to the final accented syllable. |
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The song, Crooked Man, moves from an innocent nursery rhyme to chilling global politics. |
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I see plenty of websites that have banners and graphics strewn all over the place with no rhyme or reason. |
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Back then, it was largely based around the interest we had in wordplay and rhyming about things that MCs don't normally rhyme about. |
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Within each triplet set, the items were matched for rhyme and whether the initial letter was an ascender, descender, or x-height. |
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He believes that iambic pentameter is the most suited to heroic verse, especially in English, and that rhyme should be consistent and regular. |
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Long before kids start school, parents begin to teach them language with the primitive poetry of the nursery rhyme. |
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Clapping hands to the pat-a-cake rhyme gives your baby practice in coordinating actions with words. |
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I have also used iambic tetrameter, a rhyme scheme that appears frequently in songs and uses four iambic feet. |
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The streets shifted with no apparent rhyme or reason from flagstone to cobbles to brick and back again. |
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Feminine rhyme predominates in Spanish and Italian poetry, while German and French use masculine and feminine rhyme equally. |
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In English verse today, the masculine rhyme is of course the staple thing, the feminine rhyme being a somewhat rare variation. |
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Nursery rhyme was the theme of the second event, and a fairyland was brought alive on stage for this. |
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Neither has the tsunami anything in common with God's final judgement, as the tsunami killed and destroyed capriciously, without rhyme or reason. |
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As to verse and metre, modern Heathenry like its ancient counterpart has enjoyed the use of alliterative verse or stave rhyme. |
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All sentences must accent internal rhyme through the use of syntactical parallelism. |
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The internal rhyme of issue and tissue, and their complex play of meanings make clear this fusion of flesh and fabric. |
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Hebrew poetry is not marked by metre and end-rhyme but by pictorial language, parallelisms and partly by rhythm and alliteration or stave rhyme. |
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Similarly, the third line of every stanza ends with a rhyme word which is reinforced by an internal rhyme in the middle of the fourth line. |
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It's time, as a wise, marginally white man with a peculiar knack for the internal rhyme once said, to clean out our closets. |
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We tend to act irrationally from time to time, with neither rhyme nor reason. |
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One time I even saw a teacher tell the children to copy down a nursery rhyme out of a book. |
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And delirious daftness without rhyme or reason is just plain boring and at the core of this film. |
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A traditional nursery rhyme catches this numinous mode of apprehending space and time. |
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She hit the headlines last month when an advertisement punning on a nursery rhyme was banned for being likely to harm children. |
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The pleasure of words, not least in rhyme and double entendre, taken by hip-hop and rap culture perfectly mirrors Shakespeare's poetry. |
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Thus, an eye rhyme is just a traditional rhyme in which the past identity on which the rhyme is based is preserved in the spelling. |
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If I click on an illuminated cherry, a 16 th-century picture of a toy appears and a verse from a nursery rhyme is spoken. |
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The trial begins, and the White Rabbit reads the accusation, which sounds a lot like a nursery rhyme. |
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They introduced rhythm and rhyme into medieval poetry and wrote both in Latin and in the vernacular. |
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Still, Reece is a poet and a clerk, as much at home now with pinpoint and broadcloth as with the meter and rhyme. |
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Another Milton scholar present announced that while rhyme was no ornament to verse, the return of odes and sonnets was inevitable. |
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Although it does not fit the metrical requirements of a sonnet, Herrick's song follows a metrical pattern and rhyme scheme. |
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The rhyme is scarring, like the mark of a brand, and it encapsulates the scorn that underlay the colonial occupation. |
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From beneath the mask, a deep voice boomed out, in a singsong voice, the following rhyme. |
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I can remember jumping a skipping rope to this children's rhyme and wondering about the significance of these two exotic names. |
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The shots of this film are arbitrarily put together with no rhyme or reason, creating haphazard action that is barely cogent. |
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Other phonic features are added to the basic metrical pattern of verse, with or without rhyme. |
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Form poems are also noted for their traditional use of rhyme, metre and stanza. |
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Promoted by the fascist Ezra Pound, this new poetry without meter or rhyme swept literary Europe and America in the period leading up to the war. |
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You are constrained by a specific meter, a specific rhyme scheme, and a specific length. |
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It's a thoroughly ill-conceived picture full of plot twists that have absolutely no rhyme nor reason. |
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What if I were to tell you that a masculine rhyme is blunt and obvious, while a feminine rhyme is more complex and delicate? |
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Where a line ends with an accented syllable, it is deemed to have a strong ending and is thus described as masculine rhyme. |
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Every other line stops on a masculine rhyme. These metrical procedures are perfectly joined to the imagery. |
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Tennyson's epic Charge of the Light Brigade was really just McGonagall with a competent rhyme scheme and effective scansion! |
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Whatever you tried to do, there was a bar that didn't scan, a couplet that you just couldn't find a rhyme for. |
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With the exception of A Mery Gest, whose metre Edwards describes as a form of tail rhyme, all of More's poetry are written in rhyme royal. |
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By definition, it is a poem with an unlimited number of octosyllabic verses and assonant rhyme in even-numbered verses. |
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Most rap still follows the initial formula of rhymed couplets that casually mix full rhyme with assonance. |
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First, it has the qualities of rhythm, alliteration, and assonance verging on rhyme that we might expect of a memorable turn of phrase. |
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I would, however, give the first place to rhyme, as a device which lodges a message firmly in some crevice of the mind. |
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The odd, unexpected rhyme can come like an oasis in a desert of disconnected thought and jarring line breaks. |
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He favours challenging rhyme schemes and difficult forms, such as the sestina and terza rima. |
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There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to the shoes, sandals, boots, and flip-flops I see people wearing. |
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These began, very simply, by being 10 sonnets, all with the same rhyme scheme. |
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I mean, let's see you write three to four thousand of these monstrous stanzas, with their sinewy ababbcbcc rhyme scheme and closing alexandrine. |
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Most of them rely heavily on the traditional rhyme scheme of abcb often coupled with very short lines. |
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Mostly short articles that seem to bounce around from topic to topic, really with no rhyme or reason, but are informative and interesting. |
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There isn't meant to be rhyme or reason to it, and that's one reason why some of my coworkers have had so much fun playing with it themselves. |
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After 5 albums, Noel should realise that lyrics do not have to rhyme to get the point across. |
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Poetry is memorable and meant to be memorised through forms such as songs and things that rhyme. |
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I did a double-take, wondering if Peace had meant for that to rhyme, or if it had been an accident. |
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Frontman Win Butler's lyrics rarely bother to rhyme, allowing their bizarre but always sincere sentiments to reach the ear even more directly. |
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Now, I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. |
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Part of phonemic awareness is the understanding that two words may sound the same, or rhyme, or begin with the same letter sound. |
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That's really odd, too, that the whole plot comes from the rhyme, from the need for rhymes. |
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It's an incredible layering of puns and rhymes and finally everything seems to rhyme and pun with something, with everything else. |
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Our poems don't rhyme, because rhymes keep our chains of bondage on free thought, chains invented by men. |
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William arranged this in rhyme to produce one of the most famous poems in the world. |
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He blusters, intrigues, fights, and will even speak in rhyme if the situation seems to warrant. |
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The artists built the city of Boston on stage, and I wrote a kind of heroic Shakespearean text in blank verse and rhyme about the city's history. |
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Alone, Prospero speaks an epilogue, in rhyme, saying that now that he has no magic powers he needs the audience's indulgent applause to free him. |
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Some people say it is completely reactionary because it is in rhyme and meter and that it's got this antiquated stanzaic form etcetera. |
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Sometime between 1 and 2pm on April 24, we would come along and one of the criers would do a cry about that person's business in rhyme. |
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The Live Poets will battle it out in verse and rhyme at the popular Poetry Slam, next Wednesday, June 19, at the Rous Hotel in Lismore. |
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The final tasks included matching of beginning sounds and ending sounds, awareness of rhyme, and phoneme deletion. |
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He also liked to write in verse, often setting his exam questions in rhyme. |
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At least those who were there got a sample of this artist's talent for rhythm and rhyme. |
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The rhyme and rhythm of Alborough's duck tales, with their bold, easy-to-follow images, make them ideal for reading aloud. |
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Some feel there is neither rhyme nor reason as to this regular occurrence but we have to accept it as a fact of life. |
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They're well-crafted, well-executed lyrics, often with a modicum of internal or end rhyme which leavens them in the mind. |
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This restoration of the poet transpires beyond words, music, and rhyme. |
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The concrete utterance of a nursery rhyme inaugurates a certain creativity, and absorbs the attention of the child into the world of how sound is made. |
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Yet the syntax and sense of the poems belie the filiation of the rhyme scheme, as Meredith revises the amatory sonnet tradition, expanding the scope of lyric toward narrative. |
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The repetitions that ring through these lines, and the internal rhyme and assonance that mark them seem to extend, to prolong this last moment before nightfall. |
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Avoiding set rhyme schemes but staying within more or less uniform stanzas, Roberts devises sonic constellations out of internal rhyme and repetition. |
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Many primary grade pupils enjoy rhyme in a couplet when writing poetry. |
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Regrettably, there's no particular rhyme or reason to the manner by which cashback reward defrayals are made and precisely how the credit card issuers reveal these details. |
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The universe is anarchic and doesn't care about us and unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. |
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As well as writing in free verse, his poems are often structured in two or three-line stanzas or quatrains, frequently, although not always, with a rhyme scheme. |
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Make it catchy of course, but rhyme, pun, and alliterate at your own risk. |
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With a traditional ballad you may notice the rhyme scheme or alliteration. |
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The section on markers discusses rhyme and alliteration, oppositions, word repetition, paradox, metaphor, pithiness and aspects of the syntax of proverbs. |
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Every so often, without apparent rhyme or reason, huge areas of my lawn are ripped to shreds, as if a colony of badgers has been holding an all-night party on it. |
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In verse, rhyme is opposed to rhyme, the sounds of one word are connected by repetitions with the sounds of another word and form the sound-aspect of the poem. |
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Ken Campbell's slapstick take on the nursery rhyme for Unicorn Theatre bears the old rogue's unmistakable signatures of anarchic humour and lurking menace. |
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He followed the Greeks in arguing that a poem, like the soul itself, resembles a living organism, a pattern of reason ordered by rhyme and rhythm. |
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Also, children seem to be born with a love of rhyme and rhythm. |
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Before serving themselves, each person has to make up a short rhyme. |
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While the texts of the other Lieder were rather simple rhymes in common rhyme schemes like a-b-a-b, the text here is very difficult, both to interpret and to sing. |
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In this article, Jim Nolan, the well-known Ballinrush story teller in rhyme or prose, gives us an insight into what he considers the worst snow fall during his lifetime. |
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The translation is partly in free verse and partly in rhyme. |
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Given the functional illiteracy on either side of it, I'm guessing it was a half-understood attempt to find a rhyme for a line that makes no sense anyway. |
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This would not happen if the poem rhymed, but the poem does not rhyme. |
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They even sang a song about him which managed to rhyme his name with vest. |
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With this somewhat spurious connection culled from the works, Mr. Slatkin only underscored that the program had more or less been cobbled together without rhyme or reason. |
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Why do i find some people so irritating without rhyme or reason? |
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There's not much rhyme or reason to it, for better or for worse. |
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Instead of a rhyme scheme, the words at line end in the first stanza recur according to a preordained arrangement in the subsequent sexains and in the envoy. |
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The ababcc rhyme scheme allows Southwell to set up a problem, or a set of paradoxes, in the quatrain and to appear to resolve it, or gather them together, in the couplet. |
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In the underground cellar bars and cafes of San Francisco, performance poetry was blending the rhyme and rhythm of the spoken word with free jazz. |
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The question seemed rather arbitrary with no rhyme or reason whatsoever. |
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In certain cases, though, an archaic word may be retained in order to maintain the poetic rhyme and not lose the overall effect and value of the hymn. |
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When I went to Gordy's house to make the tape, Jaz asked if his man could rhyme on it as well. |
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If they venture rhyme, that most conspicuous auditory technique of verse, they often play it down as well by burying it in run-on lines or substituting slant and half-rhymes. |
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Here, the assonance rhyme between the two principal terms sets the stage for a compelling comparison made on a genuinely imaginative and rather unexpected basis. |
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If a collection of phrases, no matter how beautiful and profound, do not rhyme or scan, then what apart from their layout on the page distinguishes them from prose? |
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Although as mentioned above masculine rhyme can have two syllables the major difference is the feminine rhyme always has two syllables and the stress is on the first syllable. |
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I think your choice of only masculine rhyme is a good one because it fulfills a terseness which is necessary in order to dispatch these observations you make. |
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The young people involved are broadening the scope of the event to include an MC section, where local MCs can rhyme, beatbox or rap in an open mic section. |
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The captain of a submarine is shown observing through the periscope a broken-backed merchantman, torpedoed fair amidships and sinking by the bow, with the complacent rhyme. |
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For in addition to these more typical forms one finds catalogued in EV an amazing variety of stanzaic forms, line lengths, meters, and rhyme schemes. |
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Bruni told NPR last summer that she changed the name because it was easier to rhyme. |
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To seek rhyme or reason in such decisions is as vain an inquiry as to seek the same qualities in the ukase of a Russian Czar or the whims of an Oriental despot. |
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The ending of a nursery rhyme every youngster knows turned wrenching in the rubble where seven kids had died. |
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At last, a good poem that does not rhyme soupily and is not sing-song. |
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In the original the opening strophe, which is altogether more regular than the average and is, moreover, one of the few that have also complete caesural rhyme, is as follows. |
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Besides being able to sing Jan Pierewiet and the opening lines of Tipperary, he has a vocabulary of 130 words which includes the nursery rhyme, Georgie Porgie. |
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But in practice, the words of a nursery rhyme are unlikely to carry the same authority as, say, those of the Constitution of the United States of America. |
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Parents spend so little time with their children that they begin school unable to speak properly or recite the simplest nursery rhyme, according to a Government study. |
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In the nursery rhyme Mary brought her lamb to school but they went even further at Saint John's school in Sligo on Monday, when they also had cows, pigs and poultry. |
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Little Molly, all of four years old, hair adorned in silver and red tinsel, has just stepped up from the stalls to sing her favourite nursery rhyme, Sing A Song Of Sixpence. |
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For hundreds of years, he was left shattered after falling off a wall but Humpty Dumpty has been put back together in a politically correct version of the nursery rhyme. |
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Moreover, he managed to stress those wishes by his choice of alliterating runes, f, and g, in stave rhyme verses, which seem not to be related to that topic. |
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This was on the basis of a contemporary account of the attack, but without evidence that the rhyme was connected. |
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Divided into five sections, tropes of extended metaphor, allusions to mythology, and internal rhyme thread the individual parts into one work. |
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In Edward Lear's nonsense rhyme The Owl And The Pussycat mention is made of a runcible spoon. |
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Tragedy demanded verse, not the quotidian prose of comedy, and verse usually supplied some form of end rhyme. |
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Tools to aid this process include poetic devices such as rhyme and alliteration. |
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In a Spenserian sonnet, the last line of every quatrain is linked with the first line of the next one, yielding the rhyme scheme ababbcbccdcdee. |
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This means that the words finger and singer do not rhyme in most modern varieties of English, although they did in Middle English. |
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One sore point in this debut collection is his end-stopped, largely exact rhyme. |
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The Witches, the play's great purveyors of rhyme, benefited most in this regard. |
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The analysis focuses on the comparison of the syllable rhyme durations and duration ratios in trisyllabic, tetrasyllabic and pentasyllabic words. |
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The rime or rhyme of a syllable consists of a nucleus and an optional coda. |
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Old English, German and Norse poems were written in alliterative verse, usually without rhyme. |
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It's important to get the perfect rhythm and the perfect rhyme in a children's book.And what makes the difference is that perfect rhyme. |
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For instance, words can differ in length, and we can rhyme a monosyllable with a polysyllable, like tracks with haversacks. |
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Below the drawing of the goose, there is a short poem, which parodies the nursery rhyme Goosey Goosey Gander. |
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I believe the most beautiful line of poetry that you can read is one that has perfect rhyme, form and meaning. |
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Traditional singers who sang in stately homes tended to sing in a Welsh language that had strict rules about metre, rhyme, and acceleration. |
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Where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme, the common unit of prose is purely grammatical, such as a sentence or paragraph. |
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They not only make a perfect rhyme, but through consonance and assonance, they resonate in our imagination. |
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Alternatively, it can mean verse which has a monotonous rhythm, easy rhyme, and cheap or trivial meaning. |
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Doggerel is poetry that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect. |
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The rhyme is usually supposed to have been written sometime in the late 18th or early 19th century by an English visitor to North Wales. |
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Petrarchan sonnets are typically composed of an octave and sestet rhyme pattern. |
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Once upon a time, when dogs barked in rhyme, there was Miz Hattie. Miz Hattie lived all alone in the piney woods. |
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The rhyme originated in the 17th century has evolved over the years, but still retains its original meaning. |
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The rhyme does not explicitly state that the subject is an egg, possibly because it may have been originally posed as a riddle. |
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The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known. |
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But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings. |
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The rhyme is one of the best known and most popular in the English language. |
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Apart from the ducal title in the song and the events of their lives there is no external evidence to link the rhyme to any of these candidates. |
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To put it differently, the feminine rhyme has here an effect similar to that of fermata in music. |
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The rhyme of the last line is a bit of a stretch, but I am hoping my poetic license covers it. |
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At a family gathering, a wake or a Christmas hooley, other children would step forward to sing a rhyme or dance a hornpipe. |
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The Shelleyan rhapsody is here followed by Gilbertian patter in anapestic heptameters that rhyme internally and terminally. |
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Even more important, this final masculine rhyme draws attention to the spatial as opposed to temporal object and experience. |
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It is possible that the rhyme was acquired from one of these sources and then adapted to fit the most famous bridge in England. |
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In the nursery rhyme Georgie Porgie, what did Georgie do when the boys came out to play? |
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In sustained elegiacal rhyme she paints a methodically wrought landscape that is beautifully subjective yet utterly universal. |
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The two principles overlap to some extent, because the feminine rhyme is also longer than the masculine. |
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The rhyme is often used in a children's singing game, which exists in a wide variety of forms, with additional verses. |
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The rhyme is one of the best known in the world and has been referenced in a variety of works of literature and popular culture. |
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It has also been suggested that the rhyme records the attempt by King Charles I to reform the taxes on liquid measures. |
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The present study demonstrates that rhyme correspondences also exist between Sinitic and Finnic languages. |
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Terza rima follows a pattern in which each verse, or tercet, connects with the following verse through an unfailing rhyme. |
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Complicated metaphors are often said to exist within the lyrics, as is common with nursery rhyme exegesis. |
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The englyn as we know it in Canu Llywarch Hen and Elegy on Cynddylan is characterized by three lines with end rhyme. |
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The second verse, probably added as part of these extensions has become a standard part of the nursery rhyme. |
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He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. |
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The rhyme dates back at least to the 18th century and exists with different numbers of verses each with a number of variations. |
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Research also supports the assertion that music and rhyme increase a child's ability in spatial reasoning, which aid mathematics skills. |
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Personal and moving, Wood remembers a bit of rhyme to his work, setting it out from the rest of the free verse poetry on the market. |
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The poem's repeated use of feminine rhyme is also a formal reenactment of the poem's central interest in collaboration. |
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Ten shared etyma between Sinitic and Uralic languages are supplied to the rhyme correspondences in this article. |
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Wyatt took subject matter from Petrarch's sonnets, but his rhyme schemes make a significant departure. |
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Brenda recalled the girls' Two Balls wall game and the rhyme that accompanied it. |
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Accepting both rhyme and stress, Jonson used them to mimic the classical qualities of simplicity, restraint and precision. |
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Jonson largely avoided the debates about rhyme and meter that had consumed Elizabethan classicists such as Thomas Campion and Gabriel Harvey. |
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Both rhyme and rhythm are related to Latin rhythmus, itself a borrowing from Greek. |
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Said bin Mohammed al Saqlawi presented a working paper on 'the internal rhyme in the Omani traditional poetry. |
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Prices vary considerably from one town to another with no apparent rhyme or reason. |
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The entire verses of Guru Granth Sahib are written in a form of poetry and rhyme to be recited in thirty one Ragas of the Classical Indian Music as specified. |
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The merger also affects the weak forms of some words, causing unstressed it, for instance, to be pronounced with a schwa, so that pig it would rhyme with bigot. |
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The true origin of the rhyme is unknown, but there are several theories. |
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In speakers with this merger the words abbot and rabbit rhyme, and Lennon and Lenin are pronounced identically, as are Rosa's and roses and addition and edition. |
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The rhyme has traditionally been seen as a nonsense verse, particularly as the couple go up a hill to find water, which is often thought to be found at the bottom of hills. |
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The precise origins of this rhyme are unknown, but research by Brian Sibley suggests that it originated at some point prior to the First World War. |
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The rhyme has also been used as a reference in more serious literary works, including as a recurring motif of the Fall of Man in James Joyce's 1939 novel Finnegans Wake. |
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It is a decasyllable line, probably borrowed from French and Italian forms, with riding rhyme and, occasionally, a caesura in the middle of a line. |
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Unusually the rhyme clearly refers to a historical person and debates have tended to circulate around identifying which Duke is being referred to in the lyrics. |
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The 1993 film Falling Down's title is a reference to the rhyme. |
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The rhyme may vary from couplet to couplet, or may remain the same. |
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A bouncy rhyme complements the exuberant, colorful illustrations of the Buckamoo Girls' exploits, from square dancing to rodeo rustling to singing by campfire and moonlight. |
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He would often fly into an unexpected rage without rhyme or reason. |
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I ne intend, but only to reduce thauncient rhyme into prose. |
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Formally, the Restoration period had a preferred rhyme scheme. |
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Otherwise, high would probably rhyme with thee rather than my. |
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Lack of rhyme was sometimes taken as Milton's defining innovation. |
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Humpty Dumpty has become a highly popular nursery rhyme character. |
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There is even a nursery rhyme about war, The Grand Old Duke of York, ridiculing a general for his inability to command any further than marching his men up and down a hill. |
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It may date back to bridge rhymes and games of the Late Middle Ages, but the earliest records of the rhyme in English are from the seventeenth century. |
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Researchers have cloned several genes for dragline silk, the type that the nursery rhyme spider must have spun to lower itself down beside Miss Muffet. |
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Clarkson was embroiled in controversy last week when it was claimed he used the N-word while reciting the nursery rhyme Eeny, Meeny, Miny Moe during filming. |
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The couple, who run Charlotte's Jersey Ice Cream at The Meadows, Whitley, won a rose bowl for Audrey's artistic ice cream cake depiction of the nursery rhyme Ten In The Bed. |
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Reefer does not rhyme with 'deafer', Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer. |
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