rhyme
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There is some rhyme and reason to this selection of devices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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 ● 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 ● 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 ● Jun. 4, 2026
The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown, thought Tristran to himself, remembering the old nursery rhyme.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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“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 ● 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 ● Aug. 26, 2026
The writing team researched medieval songs and kids’ rhymes to develop the tunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 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 ● May 22, 2026
Instead of wildly scribbled rhymes all over a piece of notebook paper like I’d usually have, Dee has typed up an entire song.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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“The struggles of these ordinary farming folk in rural China really rhymed with what was suddenly happening to farming folk in the U.S.A.,” says Peter Conn, emeritus professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
When they accepted the award, Montenegro named a dozen Venezuelan musicians in a rhymed speech and urged his countrymen to keep their heads up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
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 ● Dec. 15, 2024
Whether we are talking about 24 hours or a millennium, it is as chilling a rhymed couplet of stated political intent as one could envision.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
She remembered that Emily Dickinson’s poems hardly ever rhymed.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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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 ● Sep. 28, 2026
He uses a pair of Meta Ray-Ban glasses, with most of his videos showing his glasses-eye view of walking down the street as he greets passers-by with rhyming phrases.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
One story is told in rhyming couplets and another is conveyed entirely in images of paw and footprints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The series’ musical landscape also includes a myriad of folk songs, such as the drunken tavern tune “Alice With Three Fingers” and the childish rhyming couplets of “The Hammer and the Anvil.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
For young children, the rhyme is magical as they first encounter the powerful sound of rhyming words.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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