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.
Definition of Rhyme. Rhyme is a popular literary device in which the repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems or songs. In a rhyme in English, the vowel sounds in the stressed syllables are matching, while the preceding consonant sound does not match.