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unrhyme
unrhyme
English
Noun
unrhyme (plural unrhymes)
- A line of verse that does not rhyme.
- 2003, Elizabeth Gregory, The critical response to Marianne Moore:
- As in Emily Dickinson there is too a fastidious precision of thought where unrhymes fill the purpose better than rhymes
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Verb
unrhyme (third-person singular simple present unrhymes, present participle unrhyming, simple past and past participle unrhymed)
- To remove the rhyme or expected rhyme from.
- 1938, w:Ford Madox Ford, The march of literature: from Confucius' day to our own, page 333:
- 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
- 1978, Richard Sharp, The poet's witness:
- He half-rhymes "one" and "groan," clearly unrhymes "still" with "days," and seems unconcerned that the second "Shiloh" has no rhyming mate.
- 1992, Osbern Bokenham, A legend of holy women:
- "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
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