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▪ poetrya word or phrase used primarily to produce a rhyme. Rhyme-tags are used to comic effect in much light verse, as in W.S. Gilbert (Gilbert, Sir W.S.)'s “The Modern Major-Gineral,” which reads in partI am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral,I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral;I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical;About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,With interesting facts about the square of the hypotenuse.I'm very good at integral and differential calculus,I know the scientific names of beings animalculous.In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,I am the very model of a modern Major-Gineral.
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