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internal rhyme en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The rhyming of words (in modern English poetry) or of stressed syllables (in old Germanic poetry) within the same line of a verse.
    • We see a diverse and effective usage of internal rhyme in these ten lines. Pharoahe uses the typical internal rhyme, in which the rhymes are positioned in the middle and the end of the line (such as Lines 4, 8, and 9). 2006, H. Samy Alim, Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 145:

Forms

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internal rhymes Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

perfect rhyme · full rhyme · exact rhyme

Coordinates

slant rhyme · half rhyme · near rhyme · quasi-rhyme

Hypernyms

imperfect rhyme · concord · rhyme

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