rhyme or reason
Logic; common sense.
Prices vary considerably from one town to another with no apparent rhyme or reason.
noun
Rhyming verse (poetic form)
Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.
Libels are caſt againſt thee in the ſtreete, / Ballads and rimes made of thy ouerthrovv.
A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
Tennyson’s rhymes
A word that rhymes with another.
Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.
Rap makes use of rhymes such as “money … honey” and “nope … dope”.
A word that rhymes with another.
"Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".
Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.
[M]ary I cannot ſhevv it in rime, I haue tried, I can finde out no rime to Ladie, but babie, an innocent rime: for ſcorne, horne, a hard rime: for ſchoole foole, a babling rime: very ominous endings, no, I vvas not borne vnder a riming plannet, nor i cannot vvooe in feſtiuall termes: […]
verb
To compose or treat in verse; versify.
Ha, ha, hovv vildely doth this Cynicke rime?
How Panurge and the rest rim'd with Poetick Fury [chapter title]
To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
Now she's tainted by the syringe Try to rhyme a word with orange
Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
Creation rhymes with integration and station.
India and windier rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.
To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
Mug and rug rhyme.
To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.
I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.