Quotes About Rhyme

There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.

The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.'

I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It's a science.

How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

You're Bes, I guess? I said. Yes, he said. Your car's a mess, Liz muttered. If one more person rhymes, Emma grumbled, I'll throw up.

Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day!

Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don't rhyme

From here he could see the farmer's daughter in the yard, feeding the geese. Wasn't there a nursery rhyme in there somewhere? No, he was thinking of the farmer's wife, wasn't he?--cutting off tails with a carving knife. A horrid image. Poor mice, he had thought when he was a boy. Still thought the same now that he was a man. Nursery rhymes were brutal affairs.

For these fellows of infinite tongue, that can rime themselves into ladies' favors, they do always reason themselves out again.

By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rime, and to be melancholy.

Otchky-potchky, itchky-pitch, Pay attention to this witch. A donkey takes you to a knight -- Him you conquer in a fight. Then you wed a princess who Is even uglier than you. Ha ha ha and cockadoodle, The magic words are 'Apple Strudel

And after you were up, when the light had come and the moon had gone, you found the path again waiting through the open window, the faces at the table gazing with you, as you sat with your coffee, silently letting the sense of rest seat home, the body ready to walk, in rhythm and in rhyme, with the given, unspoken source.

Combined with your meme, your theme—an unintentional rhyme—gives you double-barreled memorability.

This morning chases a scattered rhyme; this moment flows toward its ambivalent source.

So Tristram looked on Iseult face to face and knew not, and she knew not. The last time -- The last that should be told in any rhyme Heard anywhere on mouths of singing men That ever should sing praise of them again; The last hour of their hurtless hearts at rest, The last that peace should touch them, breast to breast, The last that sorrow far from them should sit, This last was with them, and they knew not it.

Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.

Life has a flair for rhyming events.

Indeed, it has to be said that the percentage of old human sayings and proverbs that are actually true is very far from 100 percent. Seems it may be less important that it be true than that it rhyme, or show alliteration or the like. What goes around comes around: really? What does this mean?

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.

A good poem has rhyming but no ending; it continues to rhyme in our heart."

Every little or big problem has a reason. Every year there is a winter season. Every trouble goes away with time, after winter spring comes with rhyme.

Happiness will be abundant in your life when there is love, beauty, rhythm, and rhyme.

I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'