rhyme
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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
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
Maybe I could cheer her up with a rhyme, but the gnome who brought Red’s message ran away as fast as he could from my message.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
“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
A former boy-band member has turned his remixes of classic nursery rhymes into a global touring sensation.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 2, 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
We would sing her beloved Marlene Dietrich songs, or Christmas carols, or the nursery rhymes and folk songs Karli and I had grown up with.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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
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 β 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 β 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 β Jul. 30, 2024
Beat Box and Boom Box’s real names rhymed.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
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
Cheerful illustrations accompanied by rhyming text enumerate little acts of love over the course of a day, from early-morning wake-ups to indulging requests for one more bedtime lullaby.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jan. 23, 2026
It featured the hallmarks of most pre-school literature: repetition, some kind of annoying rhyming, and bold-faced scientific lies.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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