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monorhyme

noun

Etymology

From mono- + rhyme.

  1. derived from *h₂rey-✻ — “to arrange; to count”
  2. derived from *rīm✻ — “number, order, sequence, series, row of identical things”
  3. derived from *srew-✻ — “to flow; a stream”
  4. derived from ῥῠθμός — “measured motion, rhythm; regular, repeating motion, vibration”
  5. derived from rhythmus — “rhythm”
  6. derived from rime
  7. inherited from rim
  8. prefixed as monorhyme — “mono + rhyme”

Definitions

  1. A poem or rhyme scheme whose lines all end with the same rhyme.

    • Until 1629 no other rhyme scheme approaches the importance of monorhyme; in 1655–1729 alternating rhyme numbers over half of the total output, and for two of the next three generations it drops down to about a third.

  2. Having a single rhyme

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for monorhyme. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA