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In an anapestic pair, each word is an anapest and has the first and second syllables unstressed and the third syllable stressed. At this time, no anapestic pairs have been found. The pair " uneclipsed , unellipsed " is disqualified because uneclipsed also rhymes with ellipsed , and because unellipsed also rhymes with eclipsed .
Dicionário de Rimas, Portuguese-language dictionary of rhymes.. A rhyming dictionary is a specialized dictionary designed for use in writing poetry and lyrics.In a rhyming dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words that rhyme with one another.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...
Tweedledum and Tweedledee are characters in an English nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. The nursery rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19800. The names have since become synonymous in ...
Rhymes may be classified according to their position in the verse: Tail rhyme (also called end rhyme or rime couée) is a rhyme in the final syllable(s) of a verse (the most common kind). Internal rhyme occurs when a word or phrase in the interior of a line rhymes with a word or phrase at the end of a line, or within a different line.
scan of Tommy Thumb's pretty song book. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children.
Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland (2010) is a reimagining of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland written by British-American author J.T. Holden. It tells the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (with a "Slight Detour Through the Looking-Glass ") in 19 rhyming poems, each written in the same style as ...
The rhyming words are not omitted, to make the slang easier to understand. Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language. It is especially prevalent among Cockneys in England, and was first used in the early 19th century in the East End of London; hence its alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang.