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rime

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rime: see rhyme rhyme or rime, the most prominent of the literary artifices used in versification . Although it was used in ancient East Asian poetry, rhyme was practically unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
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Shrubs are gone, Withered the grass; all chill as the white rime Of early morn.
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