单词 | rhyme-letter |
释义 | > as lemmasrhyme-letter rhyme-letter n. (a) (in early English alliterative verse) each of the alliterating initial letters in a line; (b) (in Arabic verse) the consonant letter that distinguishes the rhyme within a strophe or poem. ΚΠ 1865 W. W. Skeat in G. G. Perry Morte Arthure p. xvi Of the strongly-accented syllables, three begin with a common letter, which has been called the rime-letter. 1896 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 16 63 The lines of an Arabic poem..are so written that the terminal letter..is repeated in unbroken succession down the page... A change in the rhyme-letter means accordingly a new poem (or strophe). 1909 Mod. Lang. Rev. 4 478 He had increased the normal number of rhyme letters every time an insignificant word happened to begin with the rhyme-letter. 1995 Asian Music 26 61 This concept of identifying a rhyme by the single consonant rhyme-letter (Arabic: rawîyy) is also found in the classical Arabic literary tradition. < as lemmas |
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