2. Designating the first letter or letters of a word. n. 1. a. The first letter of a proper name. b. initials The first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit: stationery monogrammed with her initials. 2. The first letter of a word. 3. A large, often highly decorated letter set at the beginning of a chapter, verse, or paragraph.
Rhyme was most often used in these songs because people could remember rhyming songs better than non-rhyming ones, so rhyming songs endured while non-rhyming ones were quickly forgotten.
a rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds or the same sound in two or more words most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songshe rhyme may extend even farther back than the last stressed vowel if it extends all the way to the beginning of the line so that there are two lines that sound identical then it is called a holorhyme for i scream for ice cream in poetics these would be considered identity rather than rhyme