internal rhyme

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internal rhyme

Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse, as in "the grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother" (Dylan Thomas).

internal rhyme

(Literature / Poetry) Prosody rhyme that occurs between words within a verse line

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internal rhyme - a rhyme between words in the same line

rhyme, rime - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

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