| 单词 | rime |
| 例句 | Though just barely substantial enough to support body weight, the rime was plastered over the rock to a thickness of two or three feet, so I kept plugging upward. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And so they sat together until the dawn light came, pallid and gray, and they saw that the soil of Tab’s grave was newly rimed with frost. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Titid tries to spend most rime with the small ones, who do need him most. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z From the deep freeze he fetched rimed cartons of beans and strawberries, twenty years old. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z "His armor is bronze, thousands and thousands of years old, engraved with magic rimes that ward him against harm," she whis-pered to Jeyne. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They would wake in the morning to see that the rime had frosted their beards, and, until the sun warmed them, they looked like old men, white-bearded before their time. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Here at last the snow crown began,- Sky's weathered stones were rimed with frost, and long spears of ice hung from the slopes above. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The rock, exhibiting a dearth of holds and coated with six inches of crumbly rime, did not look promising, but just left of the main prow was a shallow comer glazed with frozen meltwater. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Fittingly, the summit was a surreal, malevolent place, an improbably slender wedge of rock and rime no wider than a file cabinet. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the larger refrigerated chambers, hooks impaled butterflied swine and cattle rimed with frost, their pale ribs gleaming in the shallow light. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There had been a rime, Theresa remembered, when Helen had held the paper gingerly, to avoid getting her hands full of news-print. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d fallen into a slow, hypnotic rhythm—swing, swing; kick, kick; swing, swing; kick, kick— when my left ice ax slammed into a slab of diorite a few inches beneath the rime. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For half a heartbeat the rimes graven on the gold bands seemed to shimmer in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Is like a monster to me, and if I hear it in a dream, then I know is rime to wake up and listen to the rooster. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For some rime, while I am crawling about, she has rocking-chair work. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen photos of ships rimed with ice as they went through the polar night on their way to the far side of the world. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The most dramatic display of riming I saw was about four years ago in England, where a whole woodland beyond a field was frosted. Does your garden need a fall cleanup? Not so fast. 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Much like the makeup wipe of ancient rime, the apparent pitting of “real” southern rock against “fake” pop has fuelled plenty of point-missing column inches: Bradley Cooper hates pop music! A Star Is Born isn't sexist or 'rockist' – it's a cutting insight into so-called 'authenticity' 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z It is perhaps significant that the word "rime" can also mean a "rent, chink or fissure". Songs and Sonnets by Paul Muldoon – review 2013-01-11T20:00:01Z If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed snow crystal can grow to an appreciable size, but remain less than 0.2 inches. What the hail? Is that SoCal white stuff snow, graupel, sleet or hail? Here is a guide 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Crisp, opaque rime — now doesn’t that roll trippingly off the tongue? Opinion | Readers critique The Post: The slap heard around The Post 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z On the beach the sand was frozen in crusts and rimed with frost. Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken heart 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z In this case, each bit of rime sparked a new crystal to form. Snowflake Structure Still Mystifies Physicists 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Pine needles grow their own ice needles, turning into rimed maces. The Fight for the Reindeer 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the rime happened about 6:15 a.m. St. Louis woman robbed while clearing snow from her car 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z It was a dumb claim at the rime, and in hindsight, it looks a little worse. Dems ask the right questions about White House security clearances 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z "In the Arctic, we call this riming," says Uttal, whose research often takes her to the Arctic. Frozen Bubbles, Instant Ice, and Other Winter Weather Stunts Explained 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Instead he looked around for another niche, in a similar way to how he identified comedy as a rewarding field of endeavour the first rime round. The media boss who swapped winning Oscars for kids TV - BBC News 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z If problem drinkers are taken into "protective custody" by police three times in two months they can be ordered into rehab, even if they have committed no rime. A solution for Australia's grog addicts? 2013-10-16T00:04:02Z From jigging veins of riming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay We’ll lead you to the stately tent of war... Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z The fresh and dainty spring headgear had suffered a little from its contact with the grass, still damp with mist and rime; such a hat was, indeed, hardly suited to the inclement April day. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z It may be that down to comparatively late rimes poetry was not commonly read, but was recited from memory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The Kingsley Hypatia is not altogether, but is very nearly a Convertite; so nearly that he would certainly have made her altogether one, had not the bouts rime’s been too well known for alteration. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z It is not a brief song, although of late years the word has been generally used to designate almost any rimed composition set to music. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Their hair, eyebrows, and lashes were thickly covered with hoar-frost, or rime, their bloodless cheeks vying with its whiteness. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z Beneath all the frost and rime the mighty work of germination had been progressing, and everywhere around, noiselessly, invisibly, mysterious forces had been active, weaving their wondrous tissues. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z He may not be able to put it in words, but easterly haars, chilling rimes, drizzling mists, dagging fogs, and soddening rains speak eloquently to him of the meaning of climate. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z I have not time, and it would be out of place, to say more upon this subject, at this rime, in the historical sketches we propose to give. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z Speak not of snow and cold and rime Now they prevail. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z When they were ready again to start the cake a-rolling, all Kerttu had to do was throw it down in front of her and say the magic rime. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z Patches of white might here and there be seen bearing witness still to the night's hoarfrost; but beneath, amidst all this mist and rime, a great work was going on. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z A good reading, above the freezing-point in winter and much above it in summer, indicates the absence of killing rimes, that are generally followed by rain. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z The trees with silvery rime bedight Their branches bare. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z These fierce polemics, winged with rime, were very popular in Holland, where the cause of the royalists was favored. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z She sang a magic rime to the dog and gave it the shirt and off it ran. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z Cared they for squall or flurry or the frost rime? The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z You all know what hoar-frost is, though most in the country give it the expressive name of “rime.” Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z In this particular instance everything was robed in the most gleaming attire; the silvery rime softening the rich colours of the decaying oak leaves, and the sombre vegetation of the pines. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z He never forgot the town of his birth, and, after the manner of the poets of antiquity, sang its glories in many an eloquent rime. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z On her soft floppy hat and over the shoulders of her three-quarters grey coat I saw the rime of fine rain gather. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z This mode of travelling continued for a long rime, until one of the highest peaks of the Alps towered before them. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z The sedge by the river was silvered over by heavy rime and the frosted flag rushes seemed to cut like swords. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z The mud had disappeared and the ground was frozen hard: the trees sparkled with frost particles, and the ground was coated, every morning, with rime. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z "Even the gods must go; Only the lofty rime, Not countless years o'erflow, Not long array of time." Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Chaucer’s Rime of Sir Thopas is interrupted by the voice of common sense—rudely— This may well be rime doggerel, quoth he. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z It was a crisp, cheery morning, just enough wintry rime in earth and air and sky to make rapid motion a keen delight. Kitty's Conquest 2011-08-30T02:00:36.270Z And doing so, surely they are best with a thin edge of rime. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Freeze, air, freeze, The rime is on the trees— Sleeping buds within the bough, Dream of spring and cuckoos now. Songs of Womanhood 2011-08-21T02:00:31.203Z The body of the drama was written by Vondel in rimed Alexandrines. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z They had the alliterative verse, and, again, the use of the rime couée—Sir Thopas verse—was certainly due to a wish for variety. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Now and again they went out for a few hours, but in the small hours when the morning frost set the grass in the meadows crackling with rime, they grunted disgustedly and returned to bed. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z In the list below, for example, rime for rhyme is the only allowable variation; all the other forms are co-extensive with the English language. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z The whole neighbourhood was covered with a thick white rime, and though the frost was not heavy, we felt it severely. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z His works are the rimed chronicles of his age. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z In winter the vapours clinging about the clumps of beech freeze to the boughs, forming, not a rime merely, like that seen in the vale, but a kind of ice-casing, while icicles also depend underneath. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The weather most unsuitable is that kind of frost which comes on in the early morning, and is accompanied with some rime on the grass—a duck’s frost, just sufficient to check fox-hunting. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Gold is no part of man, mere passing rime. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z This picture, however, passed away very rapidly, and in an hour the rime was hardly to be seen even at the shadiest spots. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z Not for him the sweet felicities of the mincing phraser or the dreamy languors of the riming troubadour. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The grass crunches under foot, and in the morning the elms are white with rime; icicles hang from the thatch, and the ponds are frozen. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Now the sun shines warm from the steel-blue sky, its eager rays devour the rime close on the heels of the retreating shadows, and the north wind sleeps. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The black abysses, the valleys and coves, show duncolored verges and grow gradually distinct, and on the slopes the ash and the pine and the oak are all lustrous with a silver rime. The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories 2011-07-19T02:00:22.090Z In order to dry the fresh masonry, they often let the window in the corridor stand open, and so thick was the rime that you could not see the walls for it. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z I know his kindnesse such, That for my good he thinks no pains too much: And more than that; if he had knoune in time, He would have left no fault in prose nor rime. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z The less prosperous everywhere, and in the South indented servants who had served their rime, were glad to begin life anew on the frontier. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z With cymbals and rattle of castanets, And shriek of slug-horns, the North Wind Bows the oak and the moaning fir, On russet hills and by roadsides stiff with rime. Eight Harvard Poets 2011-06-26T02:00:08.617Z Of the Devonshire girls Keats thought better than of their menkind, and writes and rimes on them with a certain skittishness of admiration. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z In all poetry of all ages metre is a shackle,—perhaps modern rime is more tyrannous than the quantities of the hexameter. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z The moon was up, and the pines, covered with rime, like silver wire-work, made a fairyland of the scene as the two drove silently along the narrow road. Gunpowder Treason and Plot And Other Stories for Boys 2011-06-08T02:00:16.797Z We have our “drafty prose” as they had their “drafty riming.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z As well, will I love both thy snow and thy rime, And shall I know how from the frosts to entice Delights that are keener than iron and ice? The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z The relish of the Muse consists in rime: Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Though snow was deep they would attempt Their good mine for to pre-empt, So up the mountain they do climb, Covered o'er with snow and rime. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z The air felt unusually sharp and the furled mainsail glistened with rime. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z He calls it “the childish titillation of rime.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Inside these aisles there is the climate of eternal spring—wind, frost, and rime without; a quiet and mild air within—the blaze of summer on the square; delicious coolness here. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z He had a great fore-runner in this fault in Chapman, who constantly, especially in the Iliad, wrenches into his text for the rime’s sake ideas that have no kind of business there. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The winter was their busy time, When all was snow and frost and rime, It paid best then to pull trigger, For then furs were better thicker. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z Thus, at the age of twenty-five, he took more interest in scribbling stories and searching for rimes than in toting up the proceeds of sales at Chicago stock-yards. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z I made several efforts before I could rise from the ground; my limbs were quite stiff, and my hair was covered with rime, for the rain had ceased and a rather severe frost set in. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z But Daniel employs rime royal and terza rima, while some modern epistles have been cast in short iambic rhymed measures or in blank verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z At parting they each promised to mend their ways in the matter of letter-writing, Keats holding out the hope, which was not fulfilled, of a rimed epistle to follow. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The air was keen, although there was no wind; and the hoarfrost hung from the bushes and dried grass-blades, while there was a rime of it the length of the balustrade to the beach. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z Even in the heaviest precipitation it is uncommon to see more than a trace amount of rime on a jetliner. Icy runways! Snow! Canceled flights! 2011-02-08T17:01:00Z Our herded kine were moving in the dawn Up to the peaks, the greyest, coldest time, When the first rays steal earthward, and the rime Yields, when I saw three bands of them. The Bacchae of Euripides 2011-02-06T03:00:51.907Z Arno Raven lay stretched on the ground, and the white rime on the grass around him grew dark with a deep-red stain. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z The silence when some rimes are coming out, Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The sun shone brightly on the frozen gravel walks, and glittered in the rime that hung on the branches of the leafless trees. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z The weather had turned cold enough so that Joe's nostrils pinched when he stood still, and a little rime of frost formed about the muzzles of the tethered mules. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z A sparkling rime lay out on the grass in the paddocks and spread under the straggling shade of the sheds and the stables in crisp white patches. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z The grass, slightly frosted over, glistened white with rime. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z Such is the contrasted passage of shifting, perplexed meditation on the problems of life, and the failure of the imagination to solve them alone, in the rimed epistle to the same friend six weeks later. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Christmas-morning, with the bright sun shining in through the dirty windows, while from everywhere the rays went flashing as they lighted upon the frost, rime, or snow. Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z The orchard-trees about the old Abbey were rimed with frost, and a keenness in the air lifted me so that I could have wept or sung indifferently. Idonia: A Romance of Old London He must be versed in the Twelve Books of Poetry, and must himself be skilled to make verse in the rime and metre of the masters of Gaelic poesy. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race On either side the top of the thorn was veiled with rime. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode Once, writing to Reynolds, he resumes his habit of a year and a half earlier, and casts his fancies and reflections into rime. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It was a fine morning—wintry, bright, just enough snow underfoot to crisp the road, and enough tingle in the air to make the buds of the willows glitter with rime. Deep Moat Grange Monotonous, whitening them o'er with rime; It falls on the sheds and their palings below. Poems of Emile Verhaeren Walter, the Scot, is forgiven his rimes Because of his tales of stirring times. Impertinent Poems In verse 4 the rime requires the form wold rather than the common Nth. wald, and even the Maitland MS. retains wold for the sake of the rime, whereas MS. Erthe Upon Erthe I felt myself flung forward, heard a shout from Sparrow, and the next moment found myself rolling down a steep bank by the roadside, half blinded by the cold rime from the frosty grass. Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne Even here, at the equator, there were streaks of white snow in the streets and rings of rime along the bases of the buildings. The Secret of the Ninth Planet "Tiens!" exclaimed the watchman, peering down at him through the gray snow and rime with which was now mixed the blackness of the oncoming night. In the Day of Adversity Unless you did this many a time You needn't stop to read this rime. Impertinent Poems The last two leaves and the cover of the MS. contain various scribblings in fifteenth-century hands, chiefly of Latin aphorisms and rimes. Erthe Upon Erthe Fear not, O timid lover, The touch of frost and rime! Later Poems For there came a hard frost which covered the moor with white rime, and, though it sometimes sent them far afield for food, still saved them from annoyance by hounds. The Story of a Red Deer True," say the children, "it may happen That we die before our time: Little Alice died last year, her grave is shapen Like a snowball, in the rime. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II What do I care if you scorn my rime? Impertinent Poems Both the English and the Latin lines rime at the caesura as well as at the end of the line, but this is less uniformly the rule in the English verses. Erthe Upon Erthe The cutting wind chilled us both to the marrow, for a white rime had gathered on the ground. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England In both it is somewhat of the copious kind; and it may be observed, generally, that the style of the narrative, in the seven-lined stanza, or "rime roiall," is more diffuse than in the couplets. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 He did not indulge in the pedantry of rimes difficiles, by which Racine attracted his hearers, nor was his verse so uniformly smooth as that of his younger rival. A Short History of French Literature The following year he published his Observations in the Art of English Poesie, “against the vulgar and unartificial custom of riming,” in favour of rhymeless verse on the model of classical quantitative poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" This arrangement is facilitated by the regular internal rime on the word erthe. Erthe Upon Erthe The broad grass drive is hoar with frosty rime in the shadow of the bushes and crisp under foot. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Wild-eyed with despair she strove to pierce the opaque grey curtain which was crusting her face and hair with rime. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance The rime rolled along, now in gusty puffs. The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising “Well, you must know,” answered the apple-woman, “that fairies cannot abide cold weather; so, when the first rime frost comes, they bury themselves.” Mopsa the Fairy As regards dialect, the majority of the MSS. of the B version show traces of Northern dialect, most of them preserving the Nth. plural in -is in the rimes touris, schowrys, &c. Erthe Upon Erthe Each bush and tree was coated with rime, and edged with a tracery of delicate lacework. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story This greater liberty allowed the rime royal is doubtless due to the influence of Chaucer on that form. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Out of the aperture a thin vapor rose lazily, coating the drum and rope with rime; from the clearing a narrow trail wound to a cabin beside the creek-bank. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Only an assonance, not a rime, seems intended. The Lay of Havelok the Dane Here the first two lines represent a corrupt type of the same lines in verse 3 of the B version, while the rimes wroght : nought recall verse 1. Erthe Upon Erthe To prove his own understanding he has written one scherzo in technic that is a delightful example of bad rime, bad meter, and the other earmarks of the poor poet. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories Furnivall prints this in long lines with internal rime, which of itself seems to form the short-line stanza from the long lines. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History What though in the early morn the frost had lain in rime as white as snow on the bare branches of the great trees where now the yellow sunshine dripped in liquid light! The Story of Old Fort Loudon The scribe has probably made the rime more perfect than the sense. The Lay of Havelok the Dane It seems that dawn will never climb The eastern hills; And, clad in mist and flame and rime, Make flashing highways of the rills. The Garden of Dreams The rime of the early morning on the rail nearest the bank is easily brushed off by sliding the walking-stick along it, and then forms a convenient seat while the skates are fastened. The Hills and the Vale Under the second head rime is considered simply as a form of tone-color, and as furnishing a part of the melody of verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Many a night my companions had slept out on the mountain without blanket or shelter, when the ground froze and every twig in the forest was coated with rime from the winter fog. Our Southern Highlanders Under this head we may notice some rimes which throw, possibly, some light on the pronunciation. The Lay of Havelok the Dane It was all so jolly, the black crows, the magpies which screamed at them from the thorn-bushes, and the rime which suddenly dropped from the trees, right on to their heads. Ditte: Girl Alive! The pillars of St. Isaac's Cathedral—splendid monoliths of granite, sixty feet high—had precipitated the moisture of the air, and stood, silvered with rime from base to capital. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 The problem of the relative values of rimed and unrimed verse will come up in connection with the history of the heroic couplet and of blank verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In some MS. poems by Richard Jackson, a contemporary of the great poet, are some verses beginning, "From the rich Lavinian shore," inscribed as "Shakespeare's rime, which he made at ye 'Mitre,' in Fleet Street." Old and New London Volume I It is evident that full dependence cannot be placed upon the exactness of the rimes. The Lay of Havelok the Dane Then came bright sunny days; they melted the rime into ice: every branch received a crystal cloak, as if the whole island were of glass. Timar's Two Worlds "Shakspeare's rime," being associated with Wilson's music, is of some importance towards settling the point of authorship. Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Similarity of inflectional endings in similar clauses, he pointed out, would naturally develop rime in any inflected language. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History There was no rime or reason for the crimes, and yet the diabolical precision of the murderer seemed to indicate he was a madman of uncanny intelligence. The Homicidal Diary Here the rime is in the vowel-sound; the consonantal endings differ. The Lay of Havelok the Dane The hoar-frost had turned the ownerless island into a silver wood; continuous mists had hung every twig with flowers of rime. Timar's Two Worlds The two halves of the line rime in the original. Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose In the Celtic languages, moreover, rime is the indispensable mark of the poetic form, even in the oldest extant specimens. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Thus spoke the cheerful Major Bass; and every word he said seemed to rime with Little Compton's own thoughts, and to confirm the fears that had been aroused by the note. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches I would, however, first enumerate the rimes which seem to be more or less inexact or peculiar, or otherwise instructive. The Lay of Havelok the Dane Bush, plant, leaf, stem, rimed from end to end. A Diary Without Dates On his own authority, he cuts down, or he alters a word, or he adopts a mere corrupt pronunciation, to suit a place in his metre, or because he wants a rime. Spenser The Latin poetry just referred to gives interesting evidence that rime is a characteristic sign of popular poetry. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History I bring thee the gifts of the time; Red, for the patriot’s blood, Green, for the martyr’s crown, White, for the dew and the rime, When the morning of God comes down.” The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV I do not quite like writing the modern form fair instead of the old plural fayre in order to gain a rime to eir. The Lay of Havelok the Dane The fires were still burning and smouldering there at midday, but a shower of rime fell on it, so that it looked like an old ruin, something done long ago. A Diary Without Dates All of these rime-schemes alike were intended, by their constant repetition and interlocking of the same rimes, to give the whole poem an air of exquisite workmanship, like that of a finely modeled vase. An Introduction to Shakespeare Grimm observes that it is theoretically unlikely that alliteration should have vanished suddenly and rime as suddenly have taken its place. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History White frost rimed the ground and the chill wind made his eyes blink and water. The Ethical Engineer On this point there cannot be a moment’s doubt, for the form -en is found quite as often, and they rime together, as in 254, 255, cf. The Lay of Havelok the Dane It was unseasonable weather, a cast back into winter: windless, bitter cold, the world all white with rime, the sky low and grey: the sea black and silent like a quarry-hole. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) It does not follow that the chronological order of the individual plays could be exactly determined by their percentage of riming lines, for subject matter makes a great difference. An Introduction to Shakespeare The gradual development of rime from assonance among the Romance peoples suggests the same thing. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The modest epigraph—“Le rime n’est pas riche”—may be attributed, with a good show of likelihood, to the same collaborator. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) And this I warn thee, Martin Monckies-face, Take heed of me; my rime doth charm thee bad. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors When daisies go, shall winter-time Silver the simple grass with rime; Autumnal frosts enchant the pool And make the cart-ruts beautiful; And when snow-bright the moor expands, How shall your children clap their hands! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) But, other things being equal, a large amount of rime is always a sign of early work. An Introduction to Shakespeare Norden gives many examples of this "rhetorical rime," as well as of rime arising naturally from parallelism of sentence structure found in primitive charms, incantations, and the like. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The same volume contained the well-known rime of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." Eighth Reader Since Reason, Martin, cannot stay thy pen, We ’il see what rime will do; have at thee then! Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Next day was bright; but already some rime lay in the cold and marshy bottom of the Punch-Bowl. The Broom-Squire The same reason shows why Shakespeare used less and less rime as his taste and experience ripened. An Introduction to Shakespeare In Sir Gawayne the rimeless long line is gathered into strophes, each of which concludes with four riming lines. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Immediately the squirrel dodged behind the hickory tree.Unfortunate rime: Bert did not dare to go home with wet hair.Better: The Century Handbook of Writing The old lane about 1300 feet ahead of the Fram has opened again—a large rift, with a coating of ice and rime. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I She made great progress in the affections of the family during this rime; they found a sweetness and grace and modesty in her that presently seemed like to make her the house darling. Trading The sonnet may be briefly defined as a rimed poem in iambic pentameter, containing fourteen lines, divided into the octave of eight lines and the sextet of six. An Introduction to Shakespeare The ingenuity of his rimes added not a little to its effectiveness. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Permissible: The rime is called a "feminine rime". The Century Handbook of Writing We have, moreover, for a long time kept the hatchways in the hold open, so that there has been a thorough draught through it, and a good deal of the rime has evaporated. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I There was a rime of ice already in the lagoons, and the little falls that usually tumbled down the rocks were masses of glittering icicles. Westward with the Prince of Wales This is merely three four-line stanzas with alternate rimes, plus a final couplet. An Introduction to Shakespeare In every language now in Europe spoke By nations which the Roman empire broke, The rellish of the Muse consists in rime, One verse must meete another like a chime.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History I doted on poems of passion, And put my own pantings in rime, To celebrate, after a fashion, The damsels who took up my time. A line-o'-verse or two THE END Transcriber's Note Archaic spelling, e.g. rimes, phenix, is preserved as printed. The Chinese Fairy Book There was floating ice on the ponds, a violet rime traversed with dun wheelmarks in the shady parts of the way. Love and Lucy Date.—There is much wordplay of a rather cheap kind, much doggerel, and much jingling rime in this play. An Introduction to Shakespeare In all about five plays of Dryden's are in couplets; after 1678 he rarely returned to rime for the drama. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But, you see, this is November, And Remember rimes with it. A line-o'-verse or two His first step carried him, slipping and sprawling awkwardly, across a rocky slope white with the rime of carbon dioxide frost. The Finding of Haldgren He had an endless repertoire, and a talent for fitting the names of the dancers to his ringing rimes. A Mountain Boyhood The abundance of rimed couplet, combined wherever there is intensity of feeling with a perfect form of blank verse, is reminiscent of the earlier play. An Introduction to Shakespeare The effect is therefore closely allied to that of blank verse; the rimes, not being emphasized by marked pauses, serving rather as means of tone color than as organizers of the verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But gone its cheery, old-time ring: The poets made it rime with knell. A line-o'-verse or two The poet, tired of catching rimes Upon the wing, has turned to cull Reporter's bays, and left betimes A heaven for an entresol. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems To throw it off the track, Phobar suddenly let an ancient English nursery rime slip into his thoughts. Raiders of the Universes Before him, blank verse had no advantages to offer in compensation for the abandonment of rime. An Introduction to Shakespeare In general, the early experiments in blank verse suggest—what they must often have seemed to their writers—the mere use of the decasyllabic couplet deprived of its rime. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The suffering creatures about him were spectral phantoms of the nether world, the shimmering rime, a symbol of death, the endless snow the white robe of the grave quickly to cover them all. The Gaunt Gray Wolf A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob When winter heaped his rattling hail High on the window sill, With pipe and wassail, rime and tale, I'd never miss the nightingale Or cuckoo on the hill. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland He knew Himself to sing, and build the —— rime. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions The frequency of rime points to an earlier date, the absence of prose to a later date. An Introduction to Shakespeare In this case the tercets are united in groups of three to form a strophe of fourteen lines together with a final couplet riming with the middle line of the preceding tercet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Delving there I recovered it, and as I brushed the rime from its scarlet skin it seemed the most beautiful thing in this world. A Son of the Middle Border Boileau and his rules had crushed all sap and life out of European verse, and the poet had become either a teacher of rimed ethics or a framer of dexterous satire. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland What is imperatively required beyond verse, rime, or meter to constitute poetry? English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Date.—There is throughout the play, but chiefly in the rimed passages in the earlier parts, a great deal of verbal conceit and playing upon words, which mark immaturity. An Introduction to Shakespeare In these stanzas a pair of long lines bind together the first and second parts of the composition, just as the short lines do in the original rime couée. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The actor Garrick dragged into a prologue a riming and sneering reference to the mystery; the artist Hogarth invoked his genius to deride it. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters But now on Christmas morning, as Dorothy looked out of a window, whose panes were laced with most delicate traceries of frost rime, there was a thorn-prickle of fear in her heart. The Roof Tree Failing this, there may be verse, rime, and meter, but not poetry. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions The use of sonnets in two places, and the abundance of rime, point also to early work; but the dramatic technique and the development of character equal the work of later periods. An Introduction to Shakespeare In the following specimen, assonance seems in some measure to take the place of rime. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History I made several efforts before I could rise from the ground; my limbs were quite stiff, and my hair was covered with rime, for the rain had ceased, and a rather severe frost set in. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement I felt mysteriously alone in an indifferent big world with the rime of winter creeping along its edges. The Prairie Child The lunatic's claim to be a king is ridiculous; the Mother Goose rimes are nonsensical. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions The presence of alternate riming sonnets and doggerel rime on the one hand, and of a number of double endings on the other, render 1592 a reasonable date. An Introduction to Shakespeare Full rime, or end-rime, involves the principally stressed vowel in the riming word, and all that follows that vowel. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History As the steam rose in clouds it again encountered the prevailing cold, and was changed into rime or hoarfrost, which, layer by layer, filled up the great central space. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas She said there was no hurry; that he couldn't afford it; that there was no rime nor reason in it; let them go on as they were a bit; let them wait and see. The Combined Maze The necessities of rime compel the poet to choose a very obscure saint from the calendar. Lady of the Lake His short doggerel rimes, which breathe a jovial gaiety, were long extremely popular. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 When there is an entire unstressed syllable following, the rime is called double, or feminine. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History A frosty rime on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others A chill rime settled on the swaying laurel wreaths, and on the folds of the fluttering purple draperies at the close of the dismal day. The Dop Doctor Notice the change in the rime system which marks the break from flowing narrative to solemn dramatic speech, and is continued through the stanza to increase the effect of solemnity. Lady of the Lake The only light they have comes from the shining rime. Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. It is with reference to the first of these that Professor Corson speaks of rime as "an enforcing agency of the individual verse." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Drayton not unfairly hit the blot in his successful rival when he said of him: “His rimes were smooth, his meeters well did close, But yet his maner better fitted prose.” The Battaile of Agincourt A thin haze hung about them heavy with frosty rime, and they could not see more than a quarter of a mile ahead. Hawtrey's Deputy Notice how both rime and rhythm mirror the growing excitement of the conflict. Lady of the Lake Its authors were poets who were not spoiled by the curse of rime. The Pagan Madonna The objection always urged against rime is that its demands are likely to turn the poet aside from the normal order of his ideas. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It is hardly necessary to add that assonance freely occurs in the place of rime, and as such it is considered throughout. A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs There had been a hard frost during the night, and the ground was hard, sparkling with rime and ringing to the foot. Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers A slight rime hung about the distance, veiled faintly the Rythdale woods, enshrouded the far-off village, as they now and then caught glimpses of it, in its tuft of surrounding trees. The Old Helmet, Volume I The four long years that followed—ah, that I should make a rime of it! Something Else Again See also Ben Jonson's "Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme," for a humorous complaint against the requirements of rime upon the poet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History They are always rhythmical, and usually rimed, varying in length from a couplet to an endless improvisation. A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs “I didn’t know I had door-knobs on my hips,” he remarked, with painful humor, and, looking down at his feet, he saw that a thick rime was gathering on his blanket. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range Note the apparent “feminine” rhymes, torren-sorren, which are really rimes riches in the French style. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature We rose at six,—and in mountainous Mexico the ground at early morn, even during summer, is often covered with a frosty rime. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 The origin of rime has been a subject of prolonged controversy. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Old Sam Suck-egg, ii, 2aa, 10: He swaps his wife for a duck-egg, and this for other commodities in turn, which rime with each preceding line, until he has lost all. A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs Coated with rime it used to stand out like a jewelled thread against the dazzling sky, which merged imperceptibly from darkest sapphire overhead to tenderest turquoise on the horizon. From Paris to New York by Land In his introduction Hoffmann calls attention to the lack of variety in blank verse, but surely it does not have the monotony inherent in a recurring rime and strophe. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography A thin haze hung about them heavy with rime, and they could not see more than a quarter of a mile ahead. Masters of the Wheat-Lands Meyer's work is an exposition of the theory that rime was an importation from the Orient. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The rime was on the grass and trees, and the country most delicious. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 The sound of the words, the accumulation of rimes, and the rhythm of the verse form, as it were, the hollow music of a dreary witch-dance. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. Again, rime and strophe force upon the author the use of words and phrases needed to pad out the verse or stanza. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography This was not only conceited of him but unfortunately the line contained a rime and this rime brought down an avalanche of ridicule on his head. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' The chief support of this opinion is the fact that traces of rime, in greater or less number, appear in the oldest poetry of almost all the partially civilized peoples. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In days of old did law and rime A common pathway follow, For Themis in the mythic time Was sister of Apollo. Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series The rime hung like a frost-work from branch and spray, showing many a fantastic festoon, wreathed by powers and contrivances more wonderful than those by which our vain and presumptuous race are endowed. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 A robe of hoary rime is spread O'er earth, with corn engarlanded. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse So Faust tells her just to try and the rimes will come of their own accord. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' Here the third and eighth syllables of each verse rime, giving the effect of a separate melody only half heard under that of the main rime-scheme. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History A face was framed in the opening—an indescribably dirty, unutterably weary face, with matted white hair and a rime of whitish beard stubble on the jaws. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights His cheeks were sunken, his head was bare, and his locks covered with rime, and with fragments from the boughs that intercepted his path. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 The frost of night, the rime of dawn Bind flowerless trees and glades of lawn: Benumbed in apathetic chill Of icy chains they slumber still. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse So it is quite right to make Lynceus speak in rime. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' This is especially subtle where there is no possible pause after the riming word, as in the "sing" of the last line quoted. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Its rim A spray of leaves enchased, white as with rime Night fallen. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman At morn the fence was covered o'er With a pale sheet of rime; The earth was like a marble floor, But now is turned to grime. Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems The hoary rime of dewy night, And suns that glow with tempered light Lend fresh cool flavours to the rill That sparkles from the topmost hill. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse "By the rime on his wings he has gone into the line of frost." The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said It might be said, however, that the final syllables of "summervale" and "nightingale" are not wholly unstressed; moreover, they are in the first and third verses of the stanza, where rime is not indispensable. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Cold was the land, and hoar With wintry rime. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Andrew flourished naturally in Scotland, its commonest derivative being Anderson, while Dendy is for the rimed form Dandy. The Romance of Names How white the rime on grass and trees! The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Rhyme, or as it is more correctly spelled rime, is a similarity of sound between words or syllables. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Grein believes him to have been the author also of the Riming Poem, but, as Rieger points out, the rimes of Cynewulf are of a much less systematic character. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History And o’er and o’er Through her weird song fall echoes from that lore That lived when Time was young, e’er yet the rime Of years lay on his brow. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman The martial sound with which this distinguished name strikes a modern ear is due to historical association, assisted, as I have somewhere read, by its riming with rapier! The Romance of Names Neath open skies we sleep no more: December's nights with rime are hoar: Their triple watch454 in length extends With hours the shortened daylight lends. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse But the tension as he took up riffle after rime with the one result was like watching a long-drawn-out race with all one’s possessions staked on the losing horse. The Man from the Bitter Roots The first group is made up of the various descendants of the original "long line," sometimes rimed and sometimes unrimed; the second group of forms of the familiar octosyllabic couplet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Only about thee will a robe of light Adorn thee with a new and deathless gleam: And it shall be our thought, and word, and rime! Life Immovable First Part This May-pole was a stately pine-tree eighty feet high, with a pair of buck's horns nailed at the top, and with "sundry rimes and verses affixed." Customs and Fashions in Old New England Although the music of "Night and Sleep" is not dependent upon the rime, it is plain—as the form of poetry appeals to the ear—that the rime is a gain. Confessions of a Book-Lover Your steed, though rough-shod, cannot keep His footing on the treacherous rime And may fall headlong any time. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse It seems to be the direct result of the primitive "long line" broken into two halves by internal rime. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History And suddenly, I mingle speech with rime, The rime that above human things and woes, Like the Platonic Diotima, rises A prophetess upon a path sublime Towards worlds of thought and earth-transcending loves. Life Immovable First Part Sandwich and spencer are coupled in an old rime— "Two noble earls, whom, if I quote, Some folks might call me sinner; The one invented half a coat, The other half a dinner." The Romance of Words (4th ed.) They will order spelling according to the Standard Dictionary, yet will not accept sulfur, rime, or worshiping. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing The flaws in his style are mainly due to carelessness in the rimes and some questionable coining of words. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 From that time the measure became almost his only instrument, and we find altogether in his poetry some 16,000 lines in the couplet, besides some 14,000 more in rime royal. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Only about thee will a robe of light Adorn thee with a new and deathless gleam: And it shall be our thought, and word, and rime! Life Immovable First Part The sky was blue, the sun warm on the skin; there was no snow, and the frost a mere white rime which melted in an hour. Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America The black abysses, the valleys and coves, show dun-colored verges and grow gradually distinct, and on the slopes the ash and the pine and the oak are all lustrous with a silver rime. 'way Down In Lonesome Cove 1895 There seemed a rime upon the window-panes; the hills were bare, and the cup of the valley lay drained and empty before me, with the shadow of death darkening all the light of the day. A Circuit Rider's Wife The use of rimed couplets in Shakspere's dramas is especially characteristic of his earlier work. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Watson adds that he has inverted Serafino’s order for ‘rimes sake,’ or ‘upon some other more allowable consideration.’ A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles There was a little rime on the grass, for I had left town by gaslight, but all other conditions were as favourable as if they had been made to order. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverendly that precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rimed, sung, and jangled in every alehouse and tavern. History of the English People, Volume IV A thick rime covered the ground, and a cold air blew across the fens, as the two riders with their charges took their way south. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea Blank verse is "properly but measured prose"; and rime may be "made as natural as blank verse, by the well placing of the words, etc." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Near the outer hatch the bulky cannister, rimed with white frost, lay in a pool of melting ice. Greylorn I could sit And think I had made the loveliness of prime, Breathed its life into it and were its lord, And no mind lived save this 'twixt clouds and rime. Last Poems Thomas Twyne, who completed the work which Phaer began, calls attention to the difficulty "in this kind of translation to enforce their rime to another man's meaning." Early Theories of Translation Every bird was mute, as if with horror and the tender amber-and-green leaves of the maples shone through the rime with a singular and pathetic beauty. A Daughter of the Middle Border The real question is whether rimed verse is a more imaginative and highly poetic form than blank verse; modern opinion would unanimously answer in the negative. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History There was an exhilarating tingle of frost in the air and a visible rime on the windows. The Lure of the Mask The Family of Love, after being exposed and ridiculed both in "prose and rime," finally "gave up the ghost," and was succeeded by another "wicked sect" denominated the Ranters. Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The poet is himself struck by the difference, and notices that it is not at all there "as here with us," for there "nor hail nor rime on the land descend, nor windy cloud." A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance “Oh—it’s full of rimes and riddles, Jingles, jokes, and hi-de-diddles— This bundle that I carry on my back.” The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes This specimen shows the new measure introduced into the drama in connection with the earlier rimed septenary. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The first rime I rode with Lucy through the Aiken woods, I recalled this famous illness of hers, and I think it had something to do with all that happened afterward. We Three I should have told you that the piece which now employs me is rime. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II But of all verse, what most ensured her praise Were sonnets to herself, or 'bouts rimes.' Don Juan Others there are that have no composition at all; but a kind of tuning and riming fall in what they write. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I It will be noticed that in the specimens just quoted from the Latin there is rime not only between the ends of the verses but between the syllables just preceding the cesura. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History This was a joke insatiable between us, always bubbling over, always enough of it left for next rime. Vesty of the Basins It is more difficult than rime, and not so amusing in the composition. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II From the æsthetic point of view rime has been severely attacked and faithfully defended. The Principles of English Versification It is not that—only the rime rising over a hot-spring bubbling out from the rocks and forming the little rivulet, that, like a silver string, connects it with the lake. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" In this specimen we have the septenary without rime, a rare form. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He loved— "Tales that have the rime of age And chronicles of eld." Brief History of English and American Literature I see us flit, as here I sit With wet-fring'd eyes, And never rime or reason to it— Like a maze of flies! The Village Wife's Lament For although many inferior poets have imposed for a while on readers and critics by the superficial melody of rime alone, "wretched matter and lame metre" were never long successfully concealed by it. The Principles of English Versification We thought them at first particles of the rime falling from my tall hedges; but were soon convinced to the contrary, by making our observations in open places where no rime could reach us. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Most critics prefer those forms of sestet which avoid a final riming couplet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Most of his tragedies were written in rime, but in the best of them, All for Love, 1678, founded on Shakspere's Antony and Cleopatra, he returned to blank verse. Brief History of English and American Literature There played small stark-naked children, plump and chubby as little pigs, and sometimes they ran in the same light attire out over the rime between the tents. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Whether rime be a hindrance, vexation, and constraint to the poet depends almost wholly on his mastery of the technique of verse. The Principles of English Versification The Cow Adumbla, ‘licking the rime from the rocks,’ has a kind of Hindoo look. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History The great organizer of the stanza is, of course, the element of rime. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History I thought he was going to scold me for not having watched them better, but he said gently, "Go and get warm; you have got all the rime of Sologne in your hair." Marie Claire The day was clear, slightly frosty, myriads of brilliants were glittering in the white rime which covered the trees, and in the snow which lay on the extensive garden. The Argonauts The real problem in the arguments on rime is its fitness or unfitness in particular kinds of poetry. The Principles of English Versification This flock as it grew dusk settled in an elm by the roadside, then removed to another, shaking down the rime from the branches, and a third time wheeled round and perched in an oak. Round About a Great Estate In some cases, for example, it will be seen that the refrain is a mere appendage or coda to the stanza; in others it is made by rime a part of the organized structure. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Above his head was swinging in the mist a cluster of fox-grapes, with the rime upon them, and higher still he saw a quivering red leaf. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories Under cover they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. The Ten Books on Architecture A greater liberty is to vary the rimes of the octave to abbaacca. The Principles of English Versification They rode together on some upland trail at sunset rime, sharply framed against the bright sky. Riders of the Silences The characteristic feature of this stanza is the presence of two short lines riming together and serving as "tails" to the first and second parts of the body of the stanza. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History And then the cold weather before long put an end to the little promenades of rime by the shore, and Gard had to try other lines of attack on this radiant and beflowered German fortress. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life If not made of good clay or if not baked sufficiently, it shows itself defective there when exposed to frosts and rime. The Ten Books on Architecture They represent metaphorically, however, certain important qualities of verse which, with the exception of rime, cannot from their very impalpability be formally explained, but can only be suggested and partially described. The Principles of English Versification O ye who read this truthful rime From Flanders, kneel and say: God speed the time when every day Shall be as Christmas Day. Winning a Cause World War Stories The "rime royal" stanza is one of Chaucer's contributions to English verse, and about 14,000 lines of his poetry are in this form. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History America, millions, pigs, morals, love, brutality, erudition, proficiency, obscenity—the Teuton race mixed them all up hopelessly, without rime or reason. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life It may be that I was thinking less of my hunting than was advisable, for of a sudden I woke up to the sound of heavy feet padding over the crisp frost rime. The Literary World Seventh Reader The rime sounds of the octave and those of the sestet should be harmonious but not closely similar. The Principles of English Versification He was a poet," said Dismal, "and he threw his comment into rime. Frank Merriwell's Reward Lines combining alliteration and rime or alliteration and assonance. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History O happy time of fleecy rime And falling flakes, and O The glad surprise in baby eyes That never saw the snow! Child Songs of Cheer "How long shall I wait, come heat come rime?" Poems When both vowel and following consonant agree the rime is called perfect, as might: right, solemn: column. The Principles of English Versification A block or two up the street, where the trees began to interlace their denuded branches and the court-house common sparkled with frosty rime, he had seen the Widow Weatherwax accost Ruth Temple. The Henchman In the first case the stanza form is not represented in the manuscript, though of course implicit in the rimes. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History A thin covering of snow lay on the pavement, and there was a white rime on the bare branches of the central trees. The Silent House The rime on the grass looked cool and tempting. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers When the preceding consonant as well as the vowel and following consonant agree the rime is called identical or echo rime, as reed: read, perfection: infection, ours: hours. The Principles of English Versification We lay close to each other, but the heat of the body was no longer sufficient to thaw the frozen rime formed by our breaths on the blankets that covered him. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2 It is allowed that rime assists the memory.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He saw Ygerne several rimes, always from a distance, and made no attempt to speak with her. Wolf Breed Then said Jafnhar: All that part of Ginungagap that turns toward the north was filled with thick and heavy ice and rime, and everywhere within were 58 drizzling rains and gusts. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda When the rime words look alike but are pronounced differently, they are called eye rimes, as war: car, brow: glow. The Principles of English Versification Your leaves are constant ever, Not only in the summer time, But through the winter's snow and rime You're fresh and green forever. Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Perhaps only Collins's Ode to Evening can be compared with his success in this direction, and Collins used a more elaborate strophe to fill, in part, the place of rime. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Meres says that "Piers Plowman was the first that observed the true quality of our verse without the curiositie of rime" but he was not followed. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 But there was some one in Muspelheim who sent the heat, and gave life to the frozen drops of rime. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda Sometimes false rimes occur which have no similarity of sound or appearance, but are more or less sanctioned by earlier pronunciation or by custom, as high: humanity. The Principles of English Versification The glittering rime transfigured the very cart ruts into bars of silver; and every coarse weed was a fretwork of beauty. Faith Gartney's Girlhood In this specimen—from a popular romance—we have the use of cesural rime as well as end-rime, just as in the Latin specimens cited above. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History And you," he growled, "you have interrupted me a dozen times already, always with some nonsense of which I can make neither rime nor reason. Then I'll Come Back to You Altogether, German folk-lore is still full of rimes about three Weird Sisters. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda Sometimes also unaccented syllables are rimed with accented syllables, as burning: sing. The Principles of English Versification England, especially, was "a nest of singing birds," rapturously greeting the dawn, and the rimes were mostly of "love, whose month is always May." The Age of the Reformation The characteristic effect of the ode is produced by the varying lengths of lines employed, and the varying distances at which the rimes answer one another. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Hussars, witches, clowns, and bears were rubbing their faces, which were scorched by the cold and covered with rime, or shaking the snow off their clothes. In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World It must have been in the earlier hours that the change occurred, for Warwick gazed from its windows in the morning to find the ground rimed with hoar-frost, that looked like streaks of crusted salt. The Mayor of Warwick Imperfect rimes of all sorts are used for various reasons. The Principles of English Versification My breath hung about me in little gray clouds, covering my face, and even my coat, with rime. The Hills of Hingham The rimes in all the stanzas must be identical in the corresponding lines, but the riming words must be different. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Green not alone in summer time, But in the winter's frost and rime! Yule-Tide in Many Lands A heavy rime was falling, but though it screened all distant things, we espied five caribou that were still lingering on a lake, over which the main band had passed. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure In reading the older poets we find many rimes which are now imperfect but were once entirely correct, as the eighteenth century fault: thought, join: shine, tea: way. The Principles of English Versification Fresh effort brought fresh zest, and winter's rime Chilled not but crowned endeavor, and the heat Of summer thrilled, and made the pulses beat. A Woman's Love Letters Mr. Swinburne has reintroduced the old word-form "roundel," to distinguish this style of rondeau, of his own devising, with nine long lines, riming aba, bab, aba, the refrain riming also with the b lines. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The rime on the window is hard and white But dear, you are near to me. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar He ran his hands along the ground and the walls and they came back with a rime of dried blood and a single strand of long, oily hair stuck to them. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town The humorous rimes of Byron and Browning, among others, are of course in a different category. The Principles of English Versification Gone with the winter's rime, The bygone years. A Woman's Love Letters The last stanza took the unrepeated rime of the first stanza as its new rime; so that in the whole poem each rime was used in two stanzas. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Browned by the early frosts, with a glint of hoar rime on the cobwebs among the grasses, north, south, and west, as far as eye could see, were boundless reaches of hill and valley. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Our sleeping-bags also were frozen and uncomfortable, thick rime collecting on the insides of our tents which every puff of wind would shake down in a shower of ice. South with Scott Feminine rimes have been frequently rejected as undignified. The Principles of English Versification When at last, after several of these dreadful panics, they reached the opposite bank and fancied themselves saved, a perpendicular steep, entirely covered with rime, again opposed their landing. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 An excuse might be made for rime in the same manner. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Ben wished that he might be cursed if any man could rest well on bare boards rimed with frost like curdled milk. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade We were cased lightly in ice about the shoulders, loins, and feet, and we were also covered with the unpleasant rime which our backs had brushed off the tent walls when we had camped. South with Scott Triplet, a group of three lines, especially when rimed aaa, 101 f. The Principles of English Versification A handkerchief was given him to wipe his face, which was covered with rime. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 In real, that is, spontaneous minstrelsy, the fittest assonance, consonance, time, even rime, ... come of themselves with the imaginative thought.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Sailors heave your anchors, chanting, chanting Some strange and mystic rime. Days of the Discoverers Everything was glittering with a white rime—the house roofs, and the levels of fields on the outskirts of the little city. The Portion of Labor The simplest and most tangible of these is rime in its various forms. The Principles of English Versification It was still very cold, and the rime of the morning lay yet on the shaded places. The Debtor A Novel These passages illustrate sufficiently the grotesque effects of double and triple rime in English verse,—effects of which Byron and Browning are the unquestioned masters. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime. The Hundred Best English Poems Little is found here that bears the moss and rime of age. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 In the popular Latin verse, however, which was accentual, rime is found; and when, before the fall of the later Empire, quantity was gradually abandoned, rime returned as a regular feature of Latin verse. The Principles of English Versification There had been a hard frost the night before, and a delicate rime was still over the ground, only melting in the sunniest spots. The Debtor A Novel Professor Corson observes that the double rime is to be regarded as the means of "some special emphasis," whether serious or humorous. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Sudden a chill fell on her, and a shadow; Her breath congealed, and on those rosy lips The white rime gathered. The Arctic Queen It covered everything with a white rime; it sifted into the hair, the eyes; breathing was difficult, the air was so chokingly full of it. The Black Pearl Keats and Rossetti are noted for their free use of approximate rimes. The Principles of English Versification What if his hair that brush'd her cheek Was stiff with frozen rime? The Haunted Hour An Anthology More commonly the effect is humorous, of course, as in Don Juan, where the rimes indicate "the lowering of the poetic key—the reduction of true poetic seriousness." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History So ran the popular rime, "Their Lord they will praise, their speech they shall keep, their land they shall lose--except wild Wales." History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 "When Oxford draws knife," ran an old rime, "England's soon at strife." History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 The line unit is used sometimes singly and continuously, as in blank verse, and sometimes in groups usually held together by rime. The Principles of English Versification The kero leaves shiny patches on the rime of frost that covers the place. Shadow of the Mothaship The specimen which follows illustrates the use of these double and triple rimes for a wholly serious purpose. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Lesser bards strung together Llewelyn's victories in rough jingle of rime and hounded him on to the slaughter. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 The alliterative metre of the earlier verse is still only slightly affected by riming terminations; the similes are the few natural similes of C�dmon; the battle-scenes are painted with the same rough, simple joy. History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 But its effect, especially in long poems, is often monotonous because of the rapid recurrence of the rimes, and its powers are somewhat limited. The Principles of English Versification When Assyrian sculptors carved in fresh white alabaster the flowing curls of Sennacherib's hair, just like a modern coachman's wig, this work of primæval art was already hoary with the rime of ages. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science It is interesting to note that in the Italian language, where double rimes are almost constant, masculine rimes are sometimes used for grotesque effect in the same way that English poets use the feminine. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Moreover, it contains one or two rimes, preserved in this translation, whose full significance will be pointed out hereafter. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain A white rime, like a hoar frost, fretting the deep red of the scorched skin, that was as delicate as that on a woman's palm. Caste Consonance, specifically, in metrics, a form of incomplete rime in which the consonantal sounds agree but the vowel sounds differ, 166 f. The Principles of English Versification Herein we may see a cause for the long popularity of the sonnet, with its restricted scheme of rimes. Inquiries and Opinions Obviously lines of this kind would easily break up into riming half-lines. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But among the Teutonic races poetry was not distinguished by either of the peculiarities—rime or metre—which mark off modern verse from prose, so far as its external form is concerned. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain This rime stood out in long, slender needles an inch to an inch and a half in length, sparkling and fragile and beautiful. The Killer Blank verse is a modification of the couplet by the simple omission of the rimes at the end. The Principles of English Versification So, again, was Tennyson untiring in seeking to attain ultimate perfection of phrase, consciously employing every artifice of alliteration, assonance and rime. Inquiries and Opinions The following specimen from a celebrated ballad shows the popular use of a somewhat complex system of internal rime. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History What answered to rime was a regular and marked alliteration, each couplet having a certain key-letter, with which three principal words in the couplet began. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Over everything—the rocks, the few stunted and twisted small trees, the very surface of the snow itself—lay a heavy rime of frost. The Killer On the other hand, we feel that Chapman's and Pope's Homer and Dryden's Virgil might have been better without rimes. The Principles of English Versification Ibsen never again undertook to use rime or even meter in handling the manners of his own time. Inquiries and Opinions Schipper gives a separate paragraph also to "unaccented rime," where the similarity of sound belongs wholly to final, unstressed syllables. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Our original English versification, on the other hand, was neither rimed nor rhythmic. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain He was writing verses constantly—and he found "Cynthia" an exceedingly troublesome word; it seemed as if nothing would rime with it. The Plastic Age When good rimes are few, older pronunciations are often resorted to, as the familiar love: move, blood: stood, north: forth. The Principles of English Versification How the good maker will not wrench his word to helpe his rime, either by falsifying his accent, or by untrue orthographie. The Arte of English Poesie Imperfect rime, occurring where the vowel sounds are only similar, not identical, or where the consonants following them are not identical, is commonly regarded as an imperfection in verse form. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The old Teutonic poetry, with its treble system of accent, alliteration, and parallelism, was wholly different from the Romance poetry, with its double system of rime and metre. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Not only does the translator ignore Shakespeare's rime scheme, but he sets aside the elementary definition of a sonnet—a poem of fourteen lines. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Villanelle, a French verse form of nineteen lines on three rimes, certain lines being repeated at fixed intervals, 163 f. The Principles of English Versification He must stand at a distance, and try to judge it as he would judge a type of doctrine presented to him for the first rime. An Introduction to Philosophy In the late plays, on the other hand, rime disappears almost altogether. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Immediately after the Conquest, rimes begin to appear distinctly, while alliteration begins to die out. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Every morning now the grass was covered with rime, and to-day a flurry of snow fell. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest The 5-stress line, both rimed and unrimed, is the most flexible and best adapted to all kinds of subjects that English versification possesses. The Principles of English Versification The door, a third of the way up from the bottom, was a thick rime. The Turtles of Tasman In general, as will appear from the specimens, it is marked not only by the absence of rime but by a prevalent freedom of structure rarely found in the couplet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The misty rime of the night had frozen on hills and woods and river,—frosted the whole earth in one glittering, delicate sheath. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 The sky was clear, and the morning was bitterly cold, with rime hanging like a filmy veil in the air and glistening like flakes of silver in the sunshine. Troop One of the Labrador Here rime is sometimes a vexation, sometimes not. The Principles of English Versification In 1876 he cast it into a poem, "Sigurd the Volsung," in four books in riming lines of six iambic or anapaestic feet. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century In Milton's own prefatory note to Paradise Lost, he called his blank verse "English heroic verse without rime." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He loved "Tales that have the rime of age And chronicles of eld." Initial Studies in American Letters Are worthy hymns taught them, or the silly rimes found in many church song books? How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods This break occurs regularly and is enforced by the rime in Poe's The Raven. The Principles of English Versification The norm of the verse was the eight-syllabled riming couplet used in most of the English metrical romances of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century In the first part, however, he put rimes only at the ends of the verses, whereas later he introduced internal rime, thus resolving the verse into short lines of three stresses. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He evidently knew something of the Kentish dialect; and he took advantage of the circumstance, precisely as Gower did, for varying his rimes. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day I suppose," she said to herself, as she stood shivering, looking over rimed Lashnagar, "that Jesus was as sorry for His disciples as I am for these poor beasts. Captivity But again the right justification is successful use, and no one will deny that Swinburne's double and triple rimes have greatly enriched his verse and revealed to others unused possibilities of metre. The Principles of English Versification Only the second and fourth lines rimed, and the rime was merely assonant or vowel rime. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century This new form is divided, not into octave and sestet, but into three quatrains, with alternate rime, and a couplet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The word to be noted here is the word rimy, i.e. covered with rime or hoar-frost. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day My kids to hear the rimes and roundelays Which I on wasteful hills was wont to sing, Did more delight the lark in summer days, Whose echo made the neighbour groves to ring. Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris Here the rime scheme is peculiarly irregular, and the result is hardly a sonnet at all. The Principles of English Versification One hears much in the critical writings of that period, of the mot propre, the vers libre, and the rime brisé. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Here Chaucer follows the rules of the ballade carefully, but in the "rime royal" stanza. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He took advantage of this to introduce, occasionally, Kentish forms into his verse; apparently for the sake of securing a rime more easily. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day He soon publishes Idea, the Shepherd's Garland, Rowland's Sacrifice to the Nine Muses, where we first see our poet, in his pastoral-poetic character, carving his "rime of love's idolatry," upon a beechen tree. Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris Harry Bailey, mine host of the Canterbury pilgrims, called it 'doggerel rime.' The Principles of English Versification The English reader is frequently reminded by Hugo's verses of the queer, abrupt, and outré measures, and fantastic rimes of Robert Browning. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century This is a notable translation of a notable ballade, but it will be observed that it does not follow the strict rules as to the number of rimes. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He compares the verse paragraphs of "Lycidas" to musical bars and pronounces its system of "dispersed rimes" admirable and unique. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century With inward but audible murmurs at this unholy connection, for Morgan valued not their prayers a rush, Gideon strode forth, his eyes twinkling grievously as the drizzling rime came on his face. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 The ballad stanza, with its frequent variations of internal rime and additional verses is excellently illustrated by Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. The Principles of English Versification But here Dryden's rhetorical habit and his fondness for reasoning in rime run away with him, and make his art inferior to Boccaccio's. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century For a specimen of the rimed sestina, see Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Second Series, p. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History "He was both a perfect master of rime and could also express something by it which nobody else ever thought of." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Dust to dust: Yet we live and love and trust, Lifting burning brow and eye To the mountain peaks on high: From the peaks the ages cry, Strewing ashes, rime and rust: "Dust to dust!" The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems And yet Milton, while preserving the rime scheme, generally disregards the thought divisions, and in half of his sonnets has the pause, not after the eighth line but within the ninth. The Principles of English Versification In shaded places of the valley you may walk through larches and leafless alder thickets by silent farms, all silvered over with hoar spangles—fairy forests, where the flowers and foliage are rime. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series It is not riming and versing that maketh a poet, no more than a long gown maketh an advocate; who, though he pleaded in armor, should be an advocate and no soldier. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Like Longfellow, they loved the rich and mellow atmosphere of the historic past: "Tales that have the rime of age, And chronicles of eld." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century "As sure as death," she said, "there was some living thing standing there; I couldna see it for the rime, but I heard it breathing hard." Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood The early Italian sonnets in English, those of Wyatt, Surrey, and Sidney, are very irregular: Sidney's nearly always end in a couplet and rime the octave abbaabba or abababab or ababbaba. The Principles of English Versification Even the larger animals,—the caribou, the moose—had either turned a dull gray, or were so rimed by the frost as to have lost all appearance of solidity. The Silent Places Besides, one word so as it were begetting another, as be it in rime or measured verse, by the former a man shall have a near guess to the follower.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The most regular type of the octave may be represented by a b b a a b b a, turning therefore upon two rimes only. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson |
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