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.
Rhyme is the repetition of similar sounds in different words. One type is masculine rhyme, which occurs when the rhyme is in the stressed final syllable of the words. Some examples include fair and compare, dog and log, and collect and direct. Poets use masculine rhyme to create specific sound patterns and to link lines as a means to help emphasize their message or theme.