![]() Some prefer to spell it rime to distinguish it from the poetic rhyme covered by this article (see syllable rime). A distinction between the spellings is also sometimes made in the study of linguistics and phonology for which rime or rhyme is used to refer to the nucleus and coda of a syllable. ![]() The older spelling rime survives in Modern English as a rare alternative spelling cf. The spelling rhyme (from original rime) was introduced at the beginning of the Modern English period from a learned (but perhaps etymologically incorrect) association with Latin rhythmus. Alternatively, the Old French words may derive from Latin rhythmus, from Greek ῥυθμός ( rhythmos, rhythm). The word derives from Old French rime or ryme, which might be derived from Old Frankish rīm, a Germanic term meaning "series, sequence" attested in Old English (Old English rīm meaning "enumeration, series, numeral") and Old High German rīm, ultimately cognate to Old Irish rím, Greek ἀριθμός arithmos "number". Furthermore, the word rhyme has come to be sometimes used as a shorthand term for any brief poem, such as a nursery rhyme or Balliol rhyme. ![]() More broadly, a rhyme may also variously refer to other types of similar sounds near the ends of two or more words. Most often, this kind of perfect rhyming is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs. For other uses, see Rhyme (disambiguation).Ī rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually, the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words.
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