rhyme
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But he says it's also difficult to account for the sales, which appear random with "no rhyme or reason."
From BBC β Aug. 15, 2026
Month after month, spies secretly met in a secure compound to discuss rhyme schemes, structural forms and heroic odes.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 12, 2026
Its name is inspired by the nursery rhyme Old Mother Goose, reflecting the idea of an ancient goose emerging from the mud of a fossil deposit.
From Science Daily β Jul. 11, 2026
Their lead single “Fabienk” is studded with hair-trigger riffs — if you can even call them that — that mix the playful nursery rhyme melodies of Battles with the no-wave drone of Sonic Youth.
From Salon β Jun. 5, 2026
“The rhyme says, ‘from o’er the threshold seek and you will see.’
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
“The parents learn the value of those interactions with their children. The importance of spending time truly talking, not just directive talk … but open-ended questions, using songs and rhymes, storytelling, descriptive language.”
From Slate β Sep. 5, 2026
The problem with the 2030s is that it rhymes with the 1930s, which was a horrible period for geopolitical crises.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 26, 2026
If history rhymes, investors could come to regret their wandering eyes.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 31, 2026
The writing team researched medieval songs and kids’ rhymes to develop the tunes.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 16, 2026
She knew the rhymes they sang, but no one would ask her to join.
From "George" by Alex Gino
Mr. Power’s previous books have mostly been about 18th-century writers, yet he is as much at home with recent free verse as with rhymed couplets and sonnets.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 28, 2026
In 2002, he even made fun of the situation with the self-deprecating I Will Talk And Hollywood Will Listen, in which the title rhymed with the lyric "Mr Spielberg look just what you're missing".
From BBC β Dec. 15, 2024
The rhymed verse the characters speak in doesn’t at all hinder them from expressing themselves colloquially, in idioms that sound better with a languorous Southern lilt.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 19, 2024
Jester, troubadour, agent provocateur, Serge Gainsbourg rhymed his way through life in a fog of Gitanes smoke, making music of every genre.
From New York Times β Sep. 25, 2023
The Wart was called the Wart because it more or less rhymed with Art, which was short for his real name.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
One story is told in rhyming couplets and another is conveyed entirely in images of paw and footprints.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 29, 2026
MS Now‘s Jacob Soboroff played Mamdani the rhyming boast that begin’s “My mayor’s Muslim, my bagel’s Jewish.”
From Salon β Jun. 14, 2026
Until we see persistent, continual job losses over a long period of time across the entire economy, the safe bet is that history is simply rhyming.
From Barron's β Mar. 27, 2026
Both books tell a tale about an adventure in a woodland full of animals, with the story told in rhyming couplets.
From BBC β Feb. 6, 2026
Dad stopped his rhyming, not because Momma told him to, but because I bet he ran out of stupid poems.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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