Unrhymed is an English word with synonyms like rhymed. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Unrhymed in a sentence
Unrhymed meaning
Having no rhyme.
Synonyms of Unrhymed
Using Unrhymed
- The main meaning on this page is: Having no rhyme.
- Useful related words include: unrimed, rhymeless, rimeless, rhymed.
Context around Unrhymed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unrhymed
- In this selection, "unrhymed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, first, sonnets, relying and free stand out and add context to how "unrhymed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include books of unrhymed american sonnets and generally been unrhymed relying more. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unrhymed" sits close to words such as aad, aadhar and aaro, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unrhymed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Unrhymed verse was never popular, although sometimes it was sometimes imitated form Latin. (13 words)
Folk poetry had generally been unrhymed, relying more on dactylic line endings for effect. (14 words)
Auden also wrote one of the first unrhymed sonnets in English, "The Secret Agent" (1928). (15 words)
Michael H. Levenson, A Genealogy of Modernism (1984), p. 69. At this time Aldington's poetry was unrhymed free verse, whereas later in his verse the cadences are long and voluptuous, the imagery weighted with ornament. (36 words)
Unrhymed lyrics like Collins ' Ode to Evening (in the meter of Milton's translation of Horace 's Ode to Pyrrha) were not uncommon after 1740. (25 words)
Reaction to Milton's poetic worldview included, grudgingly, acknowledgement that of poet's resemblance to classical writers (Greek and Roman poetry being unrhymed). (23 words)
Example sentences (7)
Auden also wrote one of the first unrhymed sonnets in English, "The Secret Agent" (1928).
Folk poetry had generally been unrhymed, relying more on dactylic line endings for effect.
Michael H. Levenson, A Genealogy of Modernism (1984), p. 69. At this time Aldington's poetry was unrhymed free verse, whereas later in his verse the cadences are long and voluptuous, the imagery weighted with ornament.
Reaction to Milton's poetic worldview included, grudgingly, acknowledgement that of poet's resemblance to classical writers (Greek and Roman poetry being unrhymed).
Robert Lowell wrote five books of unrhymed "American sonnets", including his Pulitzer Prize-winning volume The Dolphin (1973).
Unrhymed lyrics like Collins ' Ode to Evening (in the meter of Milton's translation of Horace 's Ode to Pyrrha) were not uncommon after 1740.
Unrhymed verse was never popular, although sometimes it was sometimes imitated form Latin.