initial rhyme
11beginningrhyme — beginning rhyme n. 1. Rhyme at the beginning of consecutive lines of verse. Also called initial rhyme. 2. See head rhyme. * * * …
12pantoum — pan.ˈtüm noun ( s) Etymology: French, from Malay pantun : a series of quatrains rhyming abab in which the second rhyme of a quatrain recurs as the first in the succeeding quatrain, each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme (as bcbc, cdcd), and… …
13alliteration — noun Etymology: ad + Latin littera letter Date: circa 1624 the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) called also head rhyme, initial rhyme …
14clerihew — /kler euh hyooh /, n. Pros. a light verse form, usually consisting of two couplets, with lines of uneven length and irregular meter, the first line usually containing the name of a well known person. [1925 30; named after E. Clerihew Bentley… …
15Glossary of rhetorical terms — Rhetorical Theory is a subject rife with jargon and special terminology. This page explains commonly used rhetorical terms in alphabetical order. The brief definitions here are intended to serve as a quick reference rather than an in depth… …
16clerihew — noun Etymology: Edmund Clerihew Bentley died 1956 English writer Date: 1928 a light verse quatrain rhyming aabb and usually dealing with a person named in the initial rhyme …
17Parachesis — In rhetoric, parachesis is the repetition of the same sound in several words in close succession. Alliteration (initial rhyme) is a special case of parachesis.References* …
18Bentley, Edmund Clerihew — (1875 1956) London born and educated at Merton College, Oxford, he studied law but abandoned it for journalism, which he practiced for most of his life. By the end of 1899 he was a regular contributor to the Speaker, the Liberal weekly. He is… …
19Middle Chinese — 中古漢語 Spoken in China Region Medieval China Extinct Evolved into Proto Mandarin and other Chinese dialects apart from Min …
20Old Chinese phonology — The phonology of Old Chinese describes the language reflected by the rhymes of the Shijing and the phonetic components of Chinese characters, corresponding to the earlier half of the 1st millennium BC. Scholars have attempted to reconstruct the… …
