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<rhyme>

marks the rhyming part of a metrical line.

Module verseVERH

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.typed @type@subtype
@labelprovides a label (usually a single letter) to identify which part of a rhyme scheme this rhyming string instantiates.
Status
Recommended
Datatype
teidata.word

Classes and content

Member of
model.lPart
May contain

analysis

certainty

core

dictionaries

drama

figures

gaiji

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

analysis

cmc

core

dictionaries

drama

figures

header

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

Examples

<lg rhyme="abababcc">
  <l>'Tis pity learned virgins ever <rhyme label="a">wed</rhyme>
  </l>
  <l>With persons of no sort of edu<rhyme label="b">cation</rhyme>,</l>
  <l>Or gentlemen, who, though well born and <rhyme label="a">bred</rhyme>,</l>
  <l>Grow tired of scientific conver<rhyme label="b">sation</rhyme>:</l>
  <l>I don't choose to say much on this <rhyme label="a">head</rhyme>,</l>
  <l>I'm a plain man, and in a single <rhyme label="b">station</rhyme>,</l>
  <l>But — Oh! ye lords of ladies inte<rhyme label="c">llectual</rhyme>,</l>
  <l>Inform us truly, have they not hen-<rhyme label="c">peck'd you all</rhyme>?</l>
</lg>

<lg>
  <l>Tyger! Tyger! burning <rhyme label="a">bright</rhyme>
  </l>
  <l>In the forests of the <rhyme label="a">night</rhyme>,</l>
  <l>What immortal hand or <rhyme label="b">eye</rhyme>
  </l>
  <l>Could frame thy fearful <rhyme label="b" type="eye-rhyme">symmetry</rhyme>?</l>
</lg>

<lg>
  <l>"Hark! Lakshman! Hark, again that <rhyme label="a">cry</rhyme>!</l>
  <l>It is, — it is my husband's <rhyme label="b">voice</rhyme>!</l>
  <l>hasten, to his succour <rhyme label="a">fly</rhyme>,</l>
  <l>No more hast thou, dear friend, a <rhyme label="b">choice</rhyme>.</l>
  <l>He calls on thee, perhaps his <rhyme label="c">foes</rhyme>
  </l>
  <l>Environ him on all sides <rhyme label="d">round</rhyme>,</l>
  <l>That wail, — it means death's final <rhyme label="c">throes</rhyme>!</l>
  <l>Why standest thou, as magic-<rhyme label="d">bound</rhyme>?</l>
</lg>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.paraContent"/>
  </content>