rhymeprose means An early form of poetry, not strictly distinguished from prose writing, but having certain poetical features. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
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RHYMEPROSE — [Noun] An early, hybrid literary form that blends the formal freedom of prose with the deliberate sonic ornament of rhyme, resisting strict classification as either. A calque of the German Reimprosa, equivalent to the English words 'rhyme' and 'prose.' Unlike 'prose' (which flows without a formal metrical design) or 'free verse' (which is a modern, self-conscious liberation from both meter and rhyme), rhymeprose is a historical curiosity—rhyme in workaday clothes. It is the chiming cadence of a chronicler's entry, the didactic lock of a sermon's closing flourish, and the faint, persistent music in a legal charter. It speaks of a time before genres were fully sundered, when the human ear sought the comfort of a returning sound, even in the midst of plain speech.
noun
- An early form of poetry, not strictly distinguished from prose writing, but having certain poetical features.“At that time he expressed feelings in song and wrote metaphorical verse. His rhymeprose and verse began to accumulate, but in a grown man such childish efforts could only inspire shame.”