Word: rhyming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Burns "first committed the sin of rhyme," as he put it himself...
Walt Whitman would be a pretty good antidote for the world's present troubles, thought Irish Playwright Sean (Juno and the Paycock) O'Casey, who set his idea to a little rhyme for the New Statesman and Nation...
...Caspar Blandingses in a real jam can always be sure they'll find Ogden Nash coming to their defense in rubber-legged rhyme...
...nursery rhyme summed up the order of Harry Truman's working schedule for the week...
...Clerihew" is a verse of four lines of varying length in which the first two and last two lines rhyme. It gets its name from its inventor, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, author (Trent's Last Case), poet, and contributor to the New Statesman. Sample "Clerihew" from a New Statesman competition...