| 单词 | female rhyme |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfemale rhyme female rhyme n. Prosody = feminine rhyme n. at feminine adj. and n. Compounds 1; cf. male rhyme n. at male adj. and n.1 Compounds 1c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > feminine rhyme feminine rhyme1578 female rhymea1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2v Ryme..in the last silable, by the French named the Masculine ryme..in the next to the last, which the French call the Female. 1667 J. Dryden Let. to Sir R. Howard in Annus Mirabilis 1666 Pref. The Female Rhymes..are still in use amongst other Nations. 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric II. xlvi. 514 A reflection on the toil which he [sc. a poet] endured in his closet, from assorting male and female Rhymes. 1871 Acad. & Lit. 1 Nov. 490/2 If I rhyme dare with mare, that is a male rhyme; and when I rhyme dairy with Mary, this is a female rhyme. 1905 R. Bell Poet. Wks. Chaucer (rev. ed.) I. Introd. 55 Every syllable of words of French extraction..must be pronounced, and the accent laid on the last syllable. This is the origin of what has been called by modern metrists the female rhyme. 2006 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. 36 31 The rhymes in the octave are alternating male and female rhymes. < as lemmas |
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