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King praised in music, one note missing in verse (6)

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I believe the answer is:

rhymed

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'in verse' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'king praised in music one note missing' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'king' could be 'r' (abbreviation for rex, king in Latin) and 'r' is found within the answer.
'music' could be 'me' and 'me' is located in the answer.
'note' could be 'd' (musical note) and 'd' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for rhymed that I've seen before include "that U2 did with The Who" , "Made ends of poetry lines have similar sounds" , "Of verse, had similarity of sound in line endings" , "Harmonised" , "Composed poetry" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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