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| ballad stanza |
a four-line stanza often used in ballads, the second and fourth lines of which rhyme. |
| couplet |
two successive lines of poetry that usu. rhyme and have the same meter, and often form a single unit of meaning. |
| Humpty Dumpty |
(sometimes l.c.) an English nursery rhyme character shaped like a large egg, who fell off a wall, broke into pieces, and could not be reassembled. |
| Mother Hubbard |
a character in an eighteenth-century English nursery rhyme. [1/2 definitions] |
| patty-cake |
the first words of a common nursery rhyme. [2 definitions] |
| rhyme |
poetry or verse using words that rhyme, esp. at the ends of lines. [3/9 definitions] |
| rhyme scheme |
the rhyming pattern of the end rhymes of a poem, usu. indicated by letters to show which lines rhyme. |
| rime1 |
variant of rhyme. |
| rime riche |
rhyme using two or more words or syllables that are pronounced alike and often spelled alike, but are different in meaning, such as "route" and "root" or "description" and "prescription". |
| singsong |
poetry with a monotonously regular cadence and rhyme; jingle. [1/3 definitions] |
| slant rhyme |
rhyme in which the sounds do not correspond exactly, such as "eyes" and "light", or "feet" and "ate"; imperfect rhyme. |
| stanza |
a group of related lines in a poem that are separated typographically from other similar groups and that often have a regular meter and rhyme scheme. |
| tercet |
a group of three lines in poetry that rhyme, or that are connected by rhyme with an adjacent triplet of lines. [1/2 definitions] |
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