Byron's choice of this measure may have been suggested by Whistlecraft; but, he had studied its cadence in Pulci, and the Novelle Galanti of Casti, to whom he is indebted for other features of his satire; and he added to what has been well termed its characteristic jauntiness, by his almost constant use of the double rhyme.

And the right Of classic tradition, In writing And reciting Straight ahead, Without let or omission, Just any little rhyme

SEE ALVORD, THOMAS G., JR. Paul Bunyan and resinous rhymes of the north woods.

Before giving any extracts, we must inform our readers, that this romance is meant to be written in English heroic rhyme.

Double rhyme adds one short syllable; triple rhyme, two.

In consonantal rhyme both consonants and vowels should agree exactly (sonanteerrante); b and v can, however, rhyme together, since they represent the same sound, e.g. estabaesclava; habaclava.

He repeated with great spirit a poem, consisting of several stanzas, in four lines, in alternate rhyme, which he said he had composed some years before, on occasion of a rich, extravagant young gentleman's coming of age; saying he had never repeated it but once since he composed it, and had given but one copy of it.

This lofty rhyme is built up of strophes, anti-strophes, and an epode.

And on the page facing this lies a pressed flowerthere used to be twoguarded by these tender rhymes: 'Whoe'er shall read this mighty song In some forthcoming evensong, We pray thee guard these simple flowers, For, gentle Reader, they are "ours.

We should dread to point out (even if we could) a false concord, a mixed metaphor, an imperfect rhyme in any of Mr. Campbell's productions; for we think that all his fame would hardly compensate to him for the discovery.

Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

How do you make up those funny little rhymes.

The rhymes of the first and second and of the fourth and fifth lines throughout the stanzas, are all, I think, what the French call feminine rhymes, as in the words "sleeping," "weeping."

Mr. Brand, although he must have left school quite ten years ago, is still very reminiscent of Eton and has a school-boyish taste in silly rhymes and riddles.

The guests were entertained with music, recitations, the reading of many piquant letters of regret from distinguished people, and witty rhymes written for the occasion by the Cary sisters.

"For other guests," Withers seemed to say, "I wile the hours with tale or song, Or web of fancy, fringed with careless rhyme; But how to find a fitting lay for thee, Who hast the harmonies of every time?"

Method of instructionGrammatical rhymes CHAPTER XX.

He did not indeed, for that would have been pains misapplied, attempt to smooth his verses into the harmony of those in which he occasionally celebrates female beauty; but he gave them varied tone, correct rhyme, and masculine energy, all which had hitherto been strangers to the English satire.

Black Bart would have been shot on sight had he presented his doggerel to any self-respecting Western editor; nevertheless the sentiment that inspired a bandit to set forth his misdeeds in execrable rhyme transformed him from a criminal into a popular hero!

For before his fading and terrified vision there slid, as in a dream of light,yet without apparent rhyme or reasonwholly unbidden and unexplained,the face of that other man at the supper table of the railway inn.

These vowels, or their equivalents in sound, will be found pretty accurately represented in the last two syllables of every alternate line throughout the scene, which ends at p. 25, and where the verse changes into the full consonant rhyme.

I don't think he ever sent a box of flowers without his fertility serving him with some rose-leaf fancy to accompany them; and on birthdays and all red-letter days he was always to be counted upon for an appropriate rhyme.

"The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, Renews its finish'd course; Saturnian times Roll round again.

Random rhymes, by Elizabeth and Grenville Kleiser.

A number of small tracts issued from his pen with wonderful rapidity; such as Marmor Norfolciense; or an essay on an ancient prophetical inscription, in monkish rhyme, discovered at Lynn, in Norfolk.