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Rime vs. Rhyme: What’s the Difference?

Rime and rhyme are homophones. In one context, they are alternative spellings of the same word, but rime also has other meanings. Which word should you choose?

If you are an ancient mariner, you only have one real option. The rest of us need more information before we can choose rime or rhyme. I will discuss what kind of information is needed in this article.

What is the Difference Between Rime and Rhyme?

In this article, I will compare rime vs. rhyme. I will use each word in a sentence to demonstrate its proper meaning. Then, I will explain a helpful mnemonic that will make it easier to decide whether rime or rhyme is the word you should use.

When to Use Rime

What does rime mean? Rime has many senses. It can mean frost, like in the following sentences,

My car window was coated in an icy rime.
CBS News reports that Buckalew was told to maintain a 10,000-foot altitude as he headed southwest over northern New Jersey. He was also warned about accumulations of ice particles, known as rime, in the clouds. –International Business Times

Historically speaking, rime was also used in the context of poetry, like in the title of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

In linguistics, rime also refers to the part of the word that follows the initial phoneme. In this context, the initial phoneme is called the onset.

When to Use Rhyme

What does rhyme mean? Rhyme functions as several parts of speech, but its main uses are as a noun and a verb.

As a noun, it means a poem or the correspondence of sound in words or lines. Rhyme is typically used for creative purposes in poetry and lyrical music.

For example,

It is very difficult to find a rhyme for the word orange.
In a classical Elizabethan sonnet, the two ending words in each couplet must form a rhyme.

“Here is a little rhyme I’ve composed about my wonderful wife, Lisa,” said the poet at an open mic night.
If there was artistic angst, an intractable rhyme, a lyric that couldn’t be made to behave, you won’t hear about it from Ms. Bayer Sager. –The Wall Street Journal

As a verb, rhyme means to arrange words in such a way that their sounds correspond, or to have corresponding sounds.

For example,

Meat and feet rhyme, and feet are made of meat.
“You need to fix these lines, Paul,” said John, “they do not rhyme.”
You can be a great songwriter if you rhyme your verses well.

Trick to Remember the Difference

In general, you should always choose rhyme. You should only use rime in reference to ice or frost or historical contexts involving poetry, like the Coleridge piece referenced above.

Only linguists and speech language pathologists care about the linguistics sense of the word rime, and even some of them use rhyme instead.

Trick to remember rhyme vs. rime: Since rime is spelled with an I, which is also used to spell infrequent, you will always be able to remember that rime is only used infrequently in contemporary English.

Summary

Is it rime or rhyme? Rime and rhyme are homophones, which means they have the same pronunciation but different meanings.

In some cases, they are alternative spellings of the same word, when referring to a correspondence of sounds in words and lines of verse.

In the context of poetry, rime was historically correct, but has fallen out of favor in modern times. You should choose rhyme instead, except in specified historical contexts. Since rime is spelled with and I and used infrequently, you can remember to choose rhyme instead.

In summary,

Choose rime in context of ice and frost.

Choose rhyme in the context of words whose sounds match.

If you still need help remember whether to use rhyme or rime when discussing poems or songs, feel free to consult this article for additional help.

Contents

1 What is the Difference Between Rime and Rhyme?
2 When to Use Rime
3 When to Use Rhyme
4 Trick to Remember the Difference
5 Summary

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noun

identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.

a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind.

verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines.

a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence.

verse¹ (def. 4).

verb (used with object), rhymed, rhym·ing.

to treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose.

to compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes.

to use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes.

verb (used without object), rhymed, rhym·ing.

to make rhyme or verse; versify.

to use rhyme in writing verse.

to form a rhyme, as one word or line with another: a word that rhymes with orange.

to be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse: poetry that rhymes.

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Are There Any Words Without Rhymes?

It's the age old question ... at least the age-old word game question: Are there any words without rhymes?

Idioms about rhyme

rhyme or reason, logic, sense, or plan: There was no rhyme or reason for what they did.

Sometimes rime .

Origin of rhyme

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English rime, from Old French, derivative of rimer “to rhyme,” from unattested Gallo-Romance rimāre “to put in a row,” ultimately derived from Old High German rīm “series, row”; probably not connected with Latin rhythmus “rhythm,” although current spelling (from about 1600) is apparently by association with this word

historical usage of rhyme

The spelling and etymology of the noun rhyme fall between two stools. Its Middle English forms rym (in The Canterbury Tales, from around 1387), ryym (in Wycliffe’s Bible ), and rime derive from Anglo-French, Old French, and Middle French rime, ryme. Note the absence of h in all these spellings.
The source of the French rime is from an unrecorded Gallo-Romance verb rimāre “to set in a row,” a derivative of the Germanic noun rīm “number, series,” and possibly developing the senses “series of rhymed syllables” and “rhymed verse.”
The English spelling rhyme dates from around 1600 and shows the influence of the unrelated Latin rhetorical term rhythmus “a patterned sequence of sounds; measured flow of words or phrases in prose,” a borrowing from Greek rhythmós, which has the same meanings.

OTHER WORDS FROM rhyme

rhymer, nounin·ter·rhyme, verb (used without object), in·ter·rhymed, in·ter·rhym·ing.mis·rhymed, adjectivenon·rhyme, noun

non·rhymed, adjectivenon·rhym·ing, adjectiveoutrhyme, verb (used with object), out·rhymed, out·rhym·ing. un·rhyme, verb (used with object), un·rhymed, un·rhym·ing.well-rhymed, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH rhyme

rhyme , rhythm

Words nearby rhyme

rhumba, rhumbatron, rhumb line, rhumb sailing, rhus, rhyme, rhyme or reason, no, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme, rhymester, rhyming slang

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Words related to rhyme

cadence, poem, poetry, rhythm, tune, verse, alliteration, beat, couplet, doggerel, harmony, measure, meter, ode, poesy, rune, song, half-rhyme, iambic pentameter, nursery rhyme

How to use rhyme in a sentence

He talked about sharing poems with kindergartners, and how much kids love it when you tell them to just have fun, make some rhymes, and be silly.
Why kids need poetry in their lives, and how to spark their interest in it|Jason Basa Nemec|March 5, 2021|Washington Post
So many of the 140 lyricists who entered, some of them with a dozen or more songs each, offered songs that cleverly echoed the originals, and matched or even improved on the originals’ rhyme scheme.
Style Conversational Week 1424: It’s hive time for another Spelling Bee contest|Pat Myers|February 18, 2021|Washington Post
This addresses matters of length, structure, source music, rhyme and meter — what works best for a contest whose results are mostly read in text.
Style Conversational Week 1420: Back to the vocal point|Pat Myers|January 21, 2021|Washington Post
The older boy would sing a little rhyme about a dog and a hunter in the woods.
I brought my kids to the Devil for Christmas. And they’re fine. Right?|Petula Dvorak|December 17, 2020|Washington Post

“There was really no rhyme or reason to why somebody who was caught with crack cocaine was subject to imprisonment many, many times more severe than people who were found with soft cocaine,” says Virani.
The war on drugs didn’t work. Oregon’s plan might.|Kat Eschner|December 17, 2020|Popular-Science
One song interweaves adult themes into nursery rhyme cadence.
From Church of Christ to Pansexual Rapper|Tyler Gillespie|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So too, without the benefit of a rhyme, is "fix it, don't repeal it."
Democrats Must Run on Obamacare in November|Robert Shrum|March 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Like, “Yeah this will be crazy to rhyme on alright lets loop it up.”
Action Bronson Isn’t Your Typical Rapper|Sara Sayed|January 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Bruni told NPR last summer that she changed the name because it was easier to rhyme.
The Gunslinger of Rue Miromesnil|Christopher Dickey|December 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
While it may “rhyme” a bit, Syria has its own particular dynamics.
Why We Must Intervene in Syria, a Veteran Makes the Case|Mark R. Jacobson|September 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I don't exactly see how I could have been, considering I never made a rhyme in my life!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
The sixth line is in these words: “Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme. ”
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
It was about a trifle, some little thing that she had put into rhyme for him; how many rhymes she had written for him this summer!
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline|Jennie M. Drinkwater
The most amusing point in it is, that the author seriously intended the lines to rhyme.
Notes and Queries, Number 177, March 19, 1853|Various
We passed through Banbury, whose cross, famous in nursery rhyme, is only modern.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car|Thomas D. Murphy

British Dictionary definitions for rhyme

rhyme

archaic rime

/ (raɪm) /

noun

identity of the terminal sounds in lines of verse or in words

a word that is identical to another in its terminal sound``while'' is a rhyme for ``mile''

a verse or piece of poetry having corresponding sounds at the ends of the linesthe boy made up a rhyme about his teacher

any verse or piece of poetry

rhyme or reason sense, logic, or meaningthis proposal has no rhyme or reason

verb

to use (a word) or (of a word) to be used so as to form a rhyme; be or make identical in sound

to render (a subject) into rhyme

to compose (verse) in a metrical structure

See also masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme, eye rhyme

Derived forms of rhyme

rhymeless or rimeless, adjective

Word Origin for rhyme

C12: from Old French rime, from rimer to rhyme, from Old High German rīm a number; spelling influenced by rhythm

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Cultural definitions for rhyme

A similarity of sound between words, such as moon, spoon, croon, tune, and June. Rhyme is often employed in verse.

How do you spell rhyme? - check spelling

If you want to know how a word is spelled correctly, you need to find out what part of speech this word is. Next, find the rule of the Russian language, which determines the spelling. Let's figure it out.

Correct spelling:

"RHYME"

Other spellings of the word

Here we give all possible forms of the word, case declension (if possible from the point of view of Russian rules), singular and plural of the word rhyme

Basic form of the word RHYME

Infinitive:

rhyme

Present

Face	Unit number	Mn. number
1	rhyme	rhyme
2	rhyme	rhyme
3	rhymes	rhyme

Past tense

Unit number			Mn. number
male	women	avg.	Mn. number
rhymed	rhymed	rhymed	rhymed

inclination

Unit number	Mn. number
rhyme	rhyme

gerund

present	past
rhyming	rhyming

Participle - present, active voice

nine0034 rhyming

	Unit number			Mn. number
	male genus	Female genus	Neutral	Mn. number
Im.	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Gen.	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Data	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Vinit. shower	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Vinit. inanimate	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Tv.	rhyming	rhyming, rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Prev.	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Cr. incl.	-	-	-	-

Present participle, passive

nine0030

	Unit number			Mn. number
	male genus	Female genus	Neutral	Mn. number
Im.	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Gen.	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Data	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Vinit. shower	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Vinit. inanimate	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Tv.	rhyming	rhyming, rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Prev.	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming
Cr. incl.	rhyme	rhyme	rhymes	rhymes

Past participle, active voice

nine0034 -

	Unit number			Mn. number
	male genus	Female genus	Neutral	Mn. number
Im.	rhyming	rhyming	rhyming	rhymed
Gen.	rhyming	rhymed	rhyming	rhymed
Data	rhyming	rhymed	rhyming	rhyming
Vinit. shower	rhyming	rhymed	rhyming	rhymed
Vinit. inanimate	rhyming	rhymed	rhyming	rhymed
Tv.	rhyming	rhyming, rhyming	rhyming	rhymed
Prev.	rhyming	rhymed	rhyming	rhymed
Cr. incl.	-	-	-

Past participle, passive

	Unit number			Mn. number
	male genus	Female genus	Neutral	Mn. number
Im.	rhyming	rhymed	rhymed	rhyming
Gen.	rhyming	rhymed	rhyming	rhymed
Data	rhyming	rhymed	rhyming	rhyming
Vinit. shower	rhyming	rhymed	rhymed	rhymed
Vinit. inanimate	rhyming	rhymed	rhymed	rhyming
Tv. nine0025	rhyming	rhyming, rhyming	rhyming	rhymed
Prev.	rhymed	rhymed	rhymed	rhymed
Cr. incl.	rhymes	rhymed	rhymed	rhymed

The use of the word “rhyme” in quotes

We even have small children rhymes better.

I love rhyming words, they are so easy to remember.

He has a nasty habit of rhyming everything.

I just rhyme jokes or funny stories.

Which still rhymes memory.

How to write a rap text? | How to write rap?

How to write rap lyrics, you can publish a whole book, but I'll try to make it short and clear. In principle, it is roughly possible to divide the text into 2 components: rhyme and meaning, that is, what the text is about. Both that, and another, are important approximately equally, it is impossible to neglect a rhyme in the name of sense and vice versa. But in principle, if you go to extremes, you can make really strong texts, but weakly (from the point of view of the method described by me below) rhymed. An example of this is Pencil. Weak in rhyme of the text, but great plots, good presentation - it listens excellently! But still, a text for 10 points without a 10-point rhyme will not work. If we take the minimum (and this is the most basic), then the rhymes themselves, rhymed words, must meet some requirements. Still, the rap text is a kind of verse, and the center of the verse is a rhyme. That is, the emphasis is on it, as a rule, the author rhymes exactly the most important thing in a line of words. I am not a journalist, so I can’t explain it on my fingers, I can only give a link to V.V. Mayakovsky - read his article "How to make poetry" - I have not yet read something that more accurately describes this moment. In the same article, I will try to briefly retell Mayakovsky, supplementing it with some illustrative examples. nine0003

I'll start with this. Why all this fuss with rhymes, some methods and manuals, when everything just rhymes and everyone likes it? Yes, the vast majority of people (and not only ordinary listeners, but also those who rhyme and write rap themselves) have no idea that rhyme can be different. Even more! - for most of this majority, the words "idiot-whirlpool" rhyme, but let's say "city-flora" does not. If you catch the rhyme "city - flora" - I invite you to read on;). So, you can poke around in the ways and styles of rhyming, first of all, only for yourself, and for a very narrow circle of people who will understand you. For myself, in the sense that this is a plus for your originality, because everyone rhymes without hesitation “deed-boldly-skillfully-flyed”, and in your texts there is a solid exclusive

So let's go! I'll start with how you can't rhyme. In one fell swoop, we remove all the “identical” words: single-rooted (thoughts - meaning, briefly - in a timely manner, went - found, etc.), verbs (take - give, was - bought, said - showed), nouns of the same form (idiot - garden - whirlpool, attitude - opinion, couplets - newspapers - toilets, answer - nonsense, etc. I think the idea is clear, the same adjectives (original - vaginal - regional, gold - mine - blue) - in short, all words that rhyme too obvious + a huge list of retarded rhymes that have been used more than once and everyone is already tired of. There are a lot of such rhymes, you can’t sort them all out, only through the experience of reading other people’s texts you can outline this circle for yourself. never use:

news - flattery - climb - revenge - six - wool, etc.

blood - love - carrots - again, etc. (in principle, these words are the same feminine nouns and I have already written about such words)

meeting - evening - nothing

prose - rose - rods - air

autumn - eight

legs - many - miserable - God — lair — anxiety

sex — text — next and so on almost ad infinitum

That means we cut it all off and now we rhyme “according to the rules” We take the word that must be rhymed. Let's say lime. And we begin mentally (or aloud, as it is more convenient for anyone) to say this word “lime", say words similar to it, there, for example, baseness, from the outside, a ghost, recognized, Lisa, etc. - that is, a series of words immediately pops up. Choose what suits you and go! The main idea is to surprise the listener with a rhyme; for example, at the end of the line is the word “ blockhead"And the listener expects at the end of the second line to hear something like" cormorant", "glass", "trap", etc. , and you put the word "rumor". Or the word "dimensions". We find the stressed syllable "rita" and let's go, rhyme it: sugary, soaked. In short, I explained as best I could, but it is better to find Mayakovsky's article - the same thing is painted there, but better. nine0003

Everyone figured out what exactly to rhyme with. Let's move on to the structure of the text, how these rhymes should be arranged. Of course, you can rhyme 2 adjacent lines to yourself with the last word and not worry (the so-called " square" construction of the text. But for this you need to read like Kool G Rap or Big Daddy Kane, so that this flaw is not evident. Therefore, it is necessary that the text sounded varied: from a simple rhyming of 2 lines to the last word:

a serious type, because he himself earned money for sneakers,
although no, rather stole it somewhere in the supermarket ...
what I list is just a miserable minimum,
in the repertoire of the city of my native hymn golem

put a rhyme through the word

like a cook put a bay leaf over a beat in soup,
and while you’ve concocted a decent text with sweat-blood in a day…. .

in a row a few words to rhyme

… having included grand speakers for the benefit of the rap underground, we poison you with drugs… (Leoni)

Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know
that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily (Big Pun 'Twins')

double rhyme let the door bend from the pressure ...

then twice in a row juicy ditch
opponents in battles rapartage dot, people dot ru

And every year I gain clout and my name sprouts
Some brothers'd still be large if the crack never came out (Big L 'Put It On')

In general, I must say that US rappers have a double rhyme - generally the most common: it's quite simple to make, but it sounds beautiful. nine0003

triple

stay in the convoy, Emelya, I love you
and in prose (these are the lines of Majahid - a guy from hip-hop.ru).

The height of craftsmanship and chic is a full-line rhyme, i.e. all (or almost all) words in a line, respectively, rhyme with another line:

the principle of complete inertia, the puppets are in the hands of others, there are no princes here, I understand, I shoot accurately and into dust (Sergi)

I sweep away from my path, those who is clearly,
how China in Buddhism is melting in clumsy texts

I'm searchin for the impostor to pat down
I'm urgin to put the glock up and clap rounds
It's curtains like Jimmy Hoffa, he not found (Redman 'Soopaman Luva 5 (Part I)')

My sound wave liftin' your chin up like uppercuts
New found ways of rippin' shit up, I de-ve-lop (Black Thought, Big Pun 'Capital Punishment' album, 'Super Lyrycal' track)

also super rhyme - this is a rhyme when a word rhymes not with one, but with two or even several:

Ghostrida Rapid Fire,
Arrows at the ready soon… (Ghostrida, Moscow)

. .this contract is unique, no matter how many verses you forge at night, my rhymes act like Kadochnikov's tricks

endure - you have not died down (Peace Keeper)

There is also such a thing as consonance. This is not a rhyme, these are just consonant words, usually with many of the same consonants, but with different stressed vowels.

For example, “strength units to fight” with the guys ala barbi, fans of the a’renbi
- as you can see, half of the words do not rhyme, they are just consonant in the general flow of syllables. Sounds nice to me.
They also make tautological consonances, when, in addition to rhyming words, they obviously crammed with single-root ones:

the whole world is filled with bass and beat,
I am saturated with rhythm and rhymes, every atom is saturated with them

KRS-One does such things very often, here for example from the track 'When The Moon':

Your lightweight, I devisate on the equal races
No I'm not a racist, but no race could really face this

That's basically it. You can write forever on this topic, as I said, but there is not much point - I showed the main points, the rest is learned in the process. Read other people's texts (everything is exactly Russian or American - the principle is the same). Of the Americans, IMHO, Eminem, Inspector Deck (Wu-Tang), Big-L (RIP), Big Pun (RIP) and many others rhyme best of all. Of the Russians - no doubt, Vladi (and the whole Caste + Serpent from the Faces), then G Vilks (Big Black Boots), Drago, Steam, Sevzkvad, etc. The main thing is not to overdo it with rhyme for the sake of rhyme. The more complex the rhyme, the more difficult the text to understand, so you need to look for a middle ground, and not tear your ass in the selection of words for the sake of a full-line rhyme. When I listen to, for example, Sevzkvad, I don't like it - a bunch of identical words, generally a continuous rhyme, but the meaning is not clear. Some people like it, I don’t argue, but I don’t perceive it. nine0003

Also, I would advise only in the most extreme cases to adjust the phrase “to rhyme”, that is, somehow unnaturally change the word order, force the sentence.