rhyme
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He tested his nursery rhyme remixes at a festival for adults in Hong Kong, dropping “If You’re Happy and You Know It” into standard sets to surprisingly raucous response.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 2, 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
But the leverage dynamics rhyme strongly, and Shin’s entire intellectual project has been to arrest leverage booms before they tip over.
From MarketWatch β Jun. 4, 2026
“The rhyme says, ‘from o’er the threshold seek and you will see.’
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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Lenny Pearce was a former boy-band member, now he packs stadiums with remixes of classic nursery rhymes.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 5, 2026
“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
Dixon's fast-paced rhymes helped the songs stand out on the radio, and she became known for phrases such as "We're coming back strong", "M-I-S-T-double-E-Q", "Away we go" and "Enter!"
From BBC β May 22, 2026
The Orff method makes use of nursery rhymes, folktales, folksongs, folkdances, and authentic, classical compositions—all music and literature of primary importance and quality.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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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
“But I let that go during ‘Welcome Mat’ — I didn’t even care if things rhymed — and that gave me so much more of a canvas to work with.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 28, 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
For many hours, balancing on the edge of the surprises of a war with no future, in rhymed verse he resolved his experience on the shores of death.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Warmer seas help spawn Pacific hurricanes, which have already battered Hawai‘i this year. As I write this, rhyming storms named Polo and Nolo threaten to bring flooding to Hawai‘i and Mexico.
From Slate β Sep. 28, 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
A relatively anonymous take on Dua Lipa's dance-pop, it loses points for rhyming "fire" with "desire" - but I can't get it out of my head.
From BBC β May 8, 2026
Our Gravedigger speaks to us, and to the moon, about her heart’s desire in charming cockney rhyming slang.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 27, 2026
“At first glance, it appears to be rhyming quatrains in iambic heptameter.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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