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.
the word rhyme can be used in a specific and a general sense in the specific sense two words rhyme if their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical two lines of poetry rhyme if their final strong positions are filled with rhyming wordsa rhyme in the strict sense is also called a perfect rhymehe word rhyme can be used in a specific and a general sense in the specific sense two words rhyme if their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical two lines of poetry rhyme if their final strong positions are filled with rhyming words a rhyme in the strict sense is also called a perfect rhyme