Rhime

Should I ever persuade myself that I have better'd the description by giving it the dress of Rhime, I hereby engage to send it to you immediately; but I have small hopes of success. —

Letter 119 2009

Second is an English poem by a certain "A.M.," the initials certainly standing for Andrew Marvell, who, drawing on his own poetic reputation, uses rhyming couplets to 'justify' Milton's "Verse . . . which needs not Rhime."

Milton's "great Argument" Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005

_Apostatiz'd_ from _Rhime_, and lost the _Soul of Song_.

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley

The finest of these Lines (and the softest but one that I remember thro 'all his Pieces) is the middle one; it is most incorrigibly translated by _Creech_: tho' I blame him not for it, because of the difficulty of inventing fine Phrazes, much more of translating those of other Men, into Rhime; for which Reason _Creech_ has not attempted to give us any of _Theocritus_'s Turns of Words.

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

Each _Rhime_, each _Syllable_ well-weigh'd and fair,

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley

[Sidenote: _Rhime_.] _Primitive Verse_ was grac'd with pleasing _Rhimes_,

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley

But Mellows what we write to the dull sweets of Rhime.

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Colly thro 'a Hedge, and this he try'd to put in Rhime, when he saw a

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

Rhime, which he spued from his Maw, as _Tom Coriat_ formerly used to spue _Greek_, and that with a great pretence to a Poetical Zeal, against the Vices of the Times; which he mightily exclaim'd against in his _Abuses Stript and Whipt_, his _Motto_, _Brittains Remembrancer_,

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Are _doom'd_ to wear their _Days_ in _beating Rhime_?

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley