| 单词 | feminine rhyme |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfeminine rhyme feminine rhyme n. Prosody [after Middle French rithme feminine (c1570 in the passage translated in quot. 1578, or earlier); compare French rime féminine (1610 or earlier)] (in French prosody) a rhyme between syllables ending in a mute e (so called because the mute e is used as a feminine suffix); (hence more generally) a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables; (also as a mass noun) the use of such rhymes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > feminine rhyme feminine rhyme1578 female rhymea1586 1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 267 A Table, and..an other, conteyning in feminine Rymes [two poems]. 1603 S. Daniel Def. Ryme in Panegyrike sig. H6v This change of number in a Poem of one nature sits not so wel, as to mixe vncertainly, feminine Rymes with masculine. 1771 W. Hooper tr. J. F. von Bielfeld Elements Universal Erudition (new ed.) II. ii. vii. 196 When the last syllable in masculine rhymes, and the two or three last syllables in feminine rhymes, are exactly the same both to the eye and the ear, they are called rich rhymes. 1870 E. S. Creasy Hist. Eng. II. x. 544 The second and fourth lines are in Latin, and rhyme together in feminine rhyme. 1905 J. Marshall & O. J. Stevenson Select Poems 189 The words channel and panel..constitutes a feminine rhyme. 2007 Amer. Scholar Autumn 65 I drilled them on scansion and poetic feet, masculine and feminine rhyme. < as lemmas |
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