The rough measure of Donne (if it had any pretension to be called a measure) was no longer tolerated, and it was expected, even of those who wrote satires, lampoons, and occasional verses, that their rhymes should be rhymes, both to the ear and eye; and that they should neither adore their mistresses nor abuse their neighbours, in lines which differed only from prose in the fashion of printing.

"Tragedy, we know, is wont to Image to us the minds and fortunes of noble persons: and to pourtray these exactly, Heroic Rhyme is nearest Nature; as being the noblest kind of Modern Verse.

My rhymes became my companions, and when the interval of stagnation came, I was restless and lonely till it passed away.

No, by the rood: These love-rhymes are the tokens of small good.

They are all after the style of Johnson and Pope;the measured and artificial style of the eighteenth century, in imitation of the ancient classics and of French poetry, in which the wearisome rhyme is the chief peculiarity,smooth, polished, elaborate, but pretty much after the same pattern, and easily imitated by school-girls.

A. CONSONANCE Consonantal rhyme is one in which all the letters, vowels and consonants, are the same from the accented syllable to the end of the word, e.g. brumaespuma; floramor.

Double rhymes being less common than single ones, in the same proportion, is this long verse less frequently terminated with a full trochee, than with a single long syllable counted as a foot.

[PHANTASMA, with his hand in his bosom. Are rhymes become such creepers nowadays?

Rhyme is a similarity of sound, combined with a difference: occurring usually between the last syllables of different lines, but sometimes at other intervals; and so ordered that the rhyming syllables begin differently and end alike.

But the fact is, that rhymes are no safe guides, for they were not so perfect as Mr. White would have us believe.

" This old Mother Goose rhyme was the keynote of a bachelor supper which one girl gave for her brother and a few of his friends on his birthday.

Such rhymes are neither sheer bare lies, nor gospel truths.

Sir Walter's rhymes are "silly sooth" "And dally with the innocence of thought, Like the old age" his Lordship's Muse spurns the olden time, and affects all the supercilious airs of a modern fine lady and an upstart.

And why should women's writings be in any respect inferior to that of men, if they are only willing to follow out the same method of self-education? Do not fancy, when I say that we must learn poetry before we learn prose, that I am only advancing a paradox; mere talking is no more prose than mere rhyme is poetry.

Among his books are "The Spell of the Yukon," "Ballads of a Cheerchako," "Rhymes of a Rolling Stone," "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man," and "Ballads of a Bohemian."

I see, I see, 'tis counsel given in vain, For treason botch'd in rhyme will be thy bane; Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck, 'Tis fatal to thy fame and to thy neck: Why should thy metre good king David blast?

This last consideration has already answered an objection, which some have made, that "Rhyme is only an Embroidery of Sense; to make that which is ordinary in itself, pass for excellent with less examination."

"Rhymes of Robin Hood" are then spoken of by the author of "Piers Ploughman" (assigned to about 1362) as better known to idle fellows than pious songs, and from the manner of the allusion it is a just inference that such rhymes were at that time no novelties.

Pulling his long white beard and gently grumbling That rhymes were beastly things and never there.

It may be said, that "Rhyme is such a confinement to a quick and luxuriant Phancy, that it gives a stop to its speed, till slow Judgement comes in to assist it

He has very great reason to prefer verse before prose in his compositions; for rhyme is like lace, that serves excellently well to hide the piecing and coarseness of a bad stuff, contributes mightily to the bulk, and makes the less serve by the many impertinences it commonly requires to make way for it, for very few are endowed with abilities to bring it in on its own account.

the mere rhyming of the final syllable, even when accompanied by the presence of a certain number of feet ... is not the whole art of poetry.

The sound of words appeals strongly to young children, and rhyming is almost a game.