beginning rhyme

beginning rhyme

n.

1. Rhyme at the beginning of consecutive lines of verse. Also called initial rhyme.

2. See head rhyme.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

beginning rhyme - use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran" alliteration, head rhyme, initial rhyme rhyme, rime - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)