internal rhyme

English

Noun

Examples

internal rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural internal rhymes)

  1. The rhyming of words (in modern English poetry) or of stressed syllables (in old Germanic poetry) within the same line of a verse.
    Coordinate terms: half rhyme, perfect rhyme

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