internal rhyme
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internal rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural internal rhymes)
- The rhyming of words (in modern English poetry) or of stressed syllables (in old Germanic poetry) within the same line of a verse.
- Antonyms: exact rhyme, full rhyme, perfect rhyme
- Hypernyms: imperfect rhyme; rhyme; concord
- Coordinate terms: half rhyme, quasi-rhyme, near rhyme, slant rhyme
- 2006, H. Samy Alim, Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 145:
- 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).
Further reading
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