unrhymed
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈraɪmd/
- Literature
- Blank verse, that is, and I'll explain it, unrhymed iambic pentameter.
- unrhymed verse
- unrhymed poetry
Examples
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But free verse (i.e., unrhymed, unmetered poetry) is still awash in music of its own, even if it requires a slightly keener, more attentive ear to hear it.
Academic text (2010) -
Many modern poets prefer to write in unrhymed styles that focus more on the rhythm of language.
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Poetry may be either rhymed or unrhymed.
Academic text (1997) -
But I remembered something Carlyle wrote: "... there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed."
Fiction book (2002) -
"Cicadas in the Rain," for example, is a lyrical poem organized in four-line stanzas of unrhymed iambic lines.
Blog text (15) -
Unrhymed verse stressing syllabication might include haiku, tanka, and septolets.
Academic text (1993) -
The speaker writes the unrhymed, enjambing pentameter walk of Renaissance blank verse: "But I was going to say when Truth broke in / with all her matter-of-fact about the ice storm."
Academic text (2008) -
In Patterns of Poetry, x indicates an unrhymed line, a notation I will follow when commenting on rhyme in more than four lines; otherwise, I will use the more familiar abcb notation to indicate this common rhyme scheme.
Academic text (2010) -
Novation is also created by context and label: free verse was written before the modernists popularized the term, yet twentieth-century unrhymed poetries of variable meter sound like none other.
Fiction book (1999) -
She enjoys writing unrhymed poetry for its freedom and creative expression.
Synonyms
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Poetry with no matching sounds at the ends of lines
Poetry that does not use rhyme at the ends of lines
Lines in poetry that do not end with words that sound the same
Antonyms
How Rhymed
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- Literature
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unrhymed comes from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and the word rhyme, which means 'matching sounds at the ends of lines'. So unrhymed means 'not rhymed', or poetry that does not have those matching end sounds.