perfect rhyme

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English

Noun

Examples
  • English example 1:
    As the days go by
    I cannot help but sigh
  • English example 2:
    Look up into the sky
    Boy it is mighty high
  • Norse example:
    straum hrekkmímis ekkjur

perfect rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural perfect rhymes)

  1. (uncountable) A form of rhyme in which the vowels and final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound.
    Synonyms: full rhyme, exact rhyme, true rhyme
    Antonyms: imperfect rhyme; half rhyme, quasi-rhyme, near rhyme, internal rhyme
    Hypernyms: rhyme; concord
  2. (countable) An instance of this form of rhyme.

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