rhyme scheme

noun

: the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or a poem

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With his calm demeanor and distinctive baritone, Biggie exhibited a rare talent for painting pictures with his bars, delivering a complex rhyme scheme of double entendres and metaphors that has kept him on the Mount Rushmore of rap for any true connoisseur of the genre. Shirley Halperin For The Hollywood Reporter, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2025 And yet…the rhyme schemes, the reduplication, the semantic shifts, the conversions, the deliberate grammatical oddities, and rich double entendres–Carpenter is, for some people, the greatest poet to have ever put pen to paper. Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024 But Mack – freckled face, baby afro, rocking an unlimited supply of hockey jerseys – was an old-school verbal bruiser, coming up with wild-and-crazy rhyme schemes to all those MCs who dare step to him. Craig Lindsey, VIBE.com, 20 Sep. 2024 The average student was not much more responsive to rhyme schemes or stress patterns than InstructGPT. Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for rhyme scheme

Word History

First Known Use

1889, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of rhyme scheme was in 1889

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“Rhyme scheme.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rhyme%20scheme. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

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rhyme scheme

noun
: the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or a poem

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