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Definition of Rimeless
1. Adjective. Not having rhyme. "Writing unrhymed blank verse is like playing tennis without a net"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rimeless
Literary usage of Rimeless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of French Versification by Leon Emile Kastner (1903)
"CHAPTER XII rimeless POETRY ALTHOUGH it is a mistaken conception to believe, as
De Banville and some of the Romanticists did, that the rhythm of French ..."
2. A Study of Versification by Brander Matthews (1911)
"Now and again, one line or another in the quatrain, or in a longer stanza, may
be left unmated ; and often a refrain is rimeless. Yet the importance of rime ..."
3. A Study of Versification by Brander Matthews (1911)
"Now and again, one line or another in the quatrain, or in a longer stanza, may
be left unmated ; and often a refrain is rimeless. Yet the importance of rime ..."
4. The Early Life of Robert Southey, 1774-1803 by William Haller (1917)
"Southey does not fail' to note that Collins had been the only one to succeed
notably with a rimeless lyric measure in English poetry; he, perhaps rashly, ..."
5. The Early Life of Robert Southey, 1774-1803 by William Haller (1917)
"Southey does not faill to note that Collins had been the only one to succeed
notably with a rimeless lyric measure in English poetry; he, perhaps rashly, ..."
6. The Modern Language Quarterly by Walter Wilson Greg, Henry Frank Heath (1901)
"But from rimeless to wholly classical is but ... short step when no rimeless
English " verse intervenes. For it seems clear that if your verse has not the ..."
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