unrhyme

plural unrhymes

1. A line of verse that does not rhyme.

   As in Emily Dickinson there is too a fastidious precision of thought where unrhymes fill the purpose better than rhymes

   2003, Elizabeth Gregory, The critical response to Marianne Moore

present singular third person unrhymes · participle present unrhyming · participle past unrhymed · past unrhymed

1. To remove the rhyme or expected rhyme from.

   He half-rhymes "one" and "groan," clearly unrhymes "still" with "days," and seems unconcerned that the second "Shiloh" has no rhyming mate.

   1978, Richard Sharp, The poet's witness

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   a class of hackwriters arose whose job was to unrhyme the verse chronicles of the trouvere and to render them in the common speech of the day

   1938, Ford Madox Ford, The march of literature: from Confucius' day to our own, page 333

   "Unrhyming" — translating from verse to prose — while common in late medieval France, was relatively rare in England: coincidentally, the Gilte Legende unrhymes its verse sources

   1992, Osbern Bokenham, A legend of holy women