Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds).

synonym: rime.

Roget 17: similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblance; affinity, approximation, parallelism; agreement etc. 23; analogy, analogicalness^†; correspondence, homoiousia^†, parity.    connaturalness^†, connaturality^†; brotherhood, family likeness.    alliteration, rhyme, pun.    repetition etc. 104; sameness etc. (identity) 13; uniformity etc. 16; isogamy^†.    analogue; the like; match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister; one's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum [Lat.], Arcades ambo^†, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne [Lat.]; gens de meme famille [Fr.].    parallel; simile; type etc. (metaphor) 521; image etc. (representation) 554; photograph; close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance.    ... show more

Roget 413: melody, rhythm, measure; rhyme etc. (poetry) 597.    pitch, timbre, intonation, tone.    scale, gamut; diapason; diatonic chromatic scale^†, enharmonic scale^†; key, clef, chords.    modulation, temperament, syncope, syncopation, preparation, suspension, resolution.    staff, stave, line, space, brace; bar, rest; appoggiato^†, appoggiatura^†; acciaccatura^†.    note, musical note, notes of a scale; sharp, flat, natural; high note etc. (shrillness) 410; low note etc. 408; interval; semitone; second, third, fourth &c.; diatessaron^†.    breve, semibreve [Mus.], minim, crotchet, quaver; semiquaver, demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver; sustained note, drone, burden.    tonic; key note, leading note, fundamental note; supertonic^†, mediant^†, dominant; submediant^†, subdominant^†; octave, tetrachord^†; major key, minor key, major scale, minor scale, major mode, minor mode; passage, phrase.    concord, harmony; emmeleia^†; unison, unisonance^†; chime, homophony; euphony, euphonism^†; tonality; consonance; consent; part.    [Science of harmony] harmony, harmonics; thorough-bass, fundamental-bass; counterpoint; faburden^†.    piece of music etc. 415 [Fr.]; composer, harmonist^†, contrapuntist (musician) 416.    ... show more

Dutch: rijmwoord, rijm
Polish: rym

A piece of poetry.

synonym: verse.

Roget 597: poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon^†, Pierides, Pierian spring.    versification, rhyming, making verses; prosody, orthometry^†.    poem; epic, epic poem; epopee^†, epopoea, ode, epode^†, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic^†, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau [Fr.], rondo, madrigal, canzonet^†, cento^†, monody [Slang], elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal^†, palinode.    dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra poetae song [Lat.], ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song; lullaby; music etc. 415; nursery rhymes.    [Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse^†, prose run mad; macaronics^†; macaronic verse^†, leonine verse; runes.    canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe^†.    verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo^†, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation etc. (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c.; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis^†, antispast^†, blank verse, ictus.    elegiacs etc. adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.    poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist^†, scald, skald^†, troubadour, trouvere [Fr.]; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger [G.]; improvisatore^†; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist^†, rhymester; ballad monger, runer^†; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].    ... show more

Dutch: rijm, rijmpje, vers

Compose rhymes.

synonym: rime.

Roget 17: be similar etc. adj.; look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack of, savor of, approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after; imitate etc. 19; favor, span [U.S.].    render similar etc. adj.; assimilate, approximate, bring near; connaturalize^†, make alike; rhyme, pun.    ... show more

Roget 597: poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan.   

Dutch: berijmen, rijmen

Be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable:
— Hat and cat rhyme.

synonym: rime.