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perfect rhyme

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perfect rhyme
n.
1. Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different, for example, great, late; rider, beside her; dutiful, unbeautiful. Also called full rhyme, true rhyme.
2. Rime riche.
perfect rhyme
n
1. (Literature / Poetry) Also called full rhyme rhyme between words in which the stressed vowels and any succeeding consonants are identical although the consonants preceding the stressed vowels may be different, as between part/hart or believe/conceive
2. (Literature / Poetry) a rhyme between two words that are pronounced the same although differing in meaning, as in bough/bow
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perfect rhyme
n → rührender Reim
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Rather than falling "out of style," I would say a certain type of formal poetry (using perfect rhyme rather than slant, and rhyming exclusively on end words) has been abandoned by most poets for good reason.
What Walks Away with Us by Wehle, Ellen / West Branch
Keats' opening stanza disaggregates the village names into their original derivations, illustrating his knowledge of the perfect rhyme of the "teign" in Bishopsteignton and Kingsteignton.
Ideas of landscape in John Keats' Teignmouth poems by Mackenzie, Clayton G. / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
They not only make a perfect rhyme, but through consonance and assonance, they resonate in our imagination.
The politics and the poetics of Sa'di Yusuf: the use of the vernacular by Simawe, Saadi A. / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
 
 
 
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