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Holorime (or holorhyme) is a form of rhyme in which the rhyme encompasses an entire line or phrase. A holorime may be a couplet or short poem made up entirely of homophonous verses

Holorime in English

"In Ayrshire hill areas, a cruise, eh, lass?"
"Inertia, hilarious, accrues, he'las!"


from Miles Kington's poem titled "A Lowlands Holiday Ends in Enjoyable Inactivity"

Holorime in French

In French poetry, rime richissime ("very rich rhyme") is a rhyme of more than three phonemes. Holorime is an extreme example of rime richissime.

Gall, amant de la Reine, alla (tour magnanime)
Gallamment de l'Arène à la Tour Magne, à Nîmes.


Gallus, the Queen's lover, went (a magnanimous gesture)
Gallantly from the Arena to the Great Tower, at Nîmes.


A notable exponent of holorime in French was Alphonse Allais:

par les bois du djinn où s'entasse de l'effroi, by the djinn's woods, where fear abounds
parle et bois du gin ou cent tasses de lait froid. talk and drink gin or one hundred cups of cold milk

Other examples

Holorime may also refer to two phrases that sound the same but have different meanings. Most such holorimes come from music lyrics, such as "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" and "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy." (See also Mondegreen)

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rhyme is a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words and is most often used in poetry. The word "rhyme" may also refer to a short poem, such as a rhyming couplet or other brief rhyming poem such as nursery rhymes.
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A couplet is a pair of lines of verse. Some cultures have decorative traditions associated with them.

Couplets in Western poetry


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homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or
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Miles Kington (born 1941) is a British journalist, jazz musician and broadcaster. He was born in Northern Ireland (where his father, a soldier, was then posted), went to school at Trinity College, Glenalmond, a boys' independent boarding school in Glenalmond, Scotland.
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French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.

French prosody and poetics


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phoneme is the smallest unit of speech that distinguishes meaning. Phonemes are not the physical segments themselves, but abstractions of them. An example of a phoneme would be the /t/ found in words like tip,
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Magnanimous is:
  • an adjective referring to Magnanimity
  • hence an epithet, used for various rulers
  • the music label Magnanimous Records

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Alphonse Allais (October 20, 1854 - October 28, 1905) was a French writer and humorist born in Honfleur, Calvados.

He is the author of many collections of whimsical writings.
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A mondegreen is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase as a homophone or near-homophone in such a way that it acquires a new meaning.

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