Definition of Double rhyme

1. Noun. A two-syllable rhyme. "`ended' and `blended' form a double rhyme"

Generic synonyms: Rhyme, Rime

Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Rhyme

double possessives
double precision
double product
double protrusion
double quasar
double quasars
double quick
double quote
double quotes
double quotidian fever
double reed
double refraction
double replacement reaction
double replacement reactions
double reverse
double rhyme (current term)
double room
double rooms
double salt
double saucepan
double scull
double sculls
double sharp
double sharps
double sheet bend
double space
double spaced
double stain
double standard

Literary usage of Double rhyme

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Lessons for English People by Edwin Abbott Abbott, John Robert Seeley (1901)
"double rhyme. — Sometimes the rhyme is not in the last syllable, but in the last but ... Ib. However, it is usual to call this kind of rhyme a double rhyme. ..."

2. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1904)
"3 Another serious blot in Wyatt's versification is his practice of employing words that make a double rhyme, where only a single rhyme is intended, ..."

3. The Rudiments of Latin and English Grammar: Designed to Facilitate the Study by Alexander Adam (1820)
"double rhyme is used chiefly in poems of wit and humour, or in burlesque, compositions. Verses with double endings, in blank verse, most frequently occur in ..."

4. A Primer of English Verse: Chiefly in Its æsthetic and Organic Character by Hiram Corson (1892)
"The English ear is not so accustomed to the double rhyme as is the Italian ear, and the poet who employs it in serious verse, must employ it with the best ..."

5. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Newly Collected and Edited, with a Memoir by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman, George Edward Woodberry (1895)
"... now and then for a double rhyme; and the court of inquiry were content to rest in the double rhyme without exactly perceiving what a double rhyme had to ..."

6. Steps in English, Composition Rhetoric: Composition-rhetoric by Thomas Charles Blaisdell (1906)
"So perfect trochaic lines (see 85) have double rhyme, and perfect dactylic lines (see ... double rhyme in trochaic lines: Now the lovely maid is kneeling, ..."

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