Unrhyme
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Unrhyme is a noun meaning A line of verse that does not rhyme.
Meaning
A line of verse that does not rhyme.
More Meanings
- To remove the rhyme or expected rhyme from.
Example Sentences
As in Emily Dickinson there is too a fastidious precision of thought where unrhymes fill the purpose better than rhymes
He half-rhymes "one" and "groan," clearly unrhymes "still" with "days," and seems unconcerned that the second "Shiloh" has no rhyming mate.
a class of hackwriters arose whose job was to unrhyme the verse chronicles of the trouvere and to render them in the common speech of the day
"Unrhyming" — translating from verse to prose — while common in late medieval France, was relatively rare in England: coincidentally, the Gilte Legende unrhymes its verse sources
Word Forms
- unrhymes
- unrhyming
- unrhymed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unaccent, nonsentence, nonverse, nonrule, unruliment, nonsequence.
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