Definition of "rhyme" []

• Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. (noun)
• A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines. (noun)
• Poetry or verse of this kind. (noun)
• A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold. (noun)
• To form a rhyme. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Verse without rhyme, is a body without a soul, (for the “chief life consisteth in the rhyme”) or a bell without a clapper; which, in strictness, is no bell, as being neither of use nor delight."
• "Why, for instance, Riordan has his characters speak in rhyme is never satisfactorily revealed."
• "I appreciate the implication that these small couplets are the only inoculation against certain death that kids have in their defensive arsenal -- and that the rhyme is a lesson hard-learned, acquired from the corpses of generations."