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slant rhyme

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slant rhyme
n.
See off rhyme.

slant rhyme
n
(Literature / Poetry) Prosody another term for half-rhyme


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Pallitto's translations are graceful and ingenious: she works out precise or slant rhymes corresponding to Tullia's rhyme schemes, often with admirable faithfulness to the originals.
Behind him lies one of the century's scariest female nudes, in harsh profile, dark-haired, hawknosed, her facial scar providing a kind of slant rhyme to the laced-up front of the artist's skintight shirt.
She also uses an occasional slant rhyme ("carnival/carousel," "sky/attentively") to keep the pattern from becoming monotonous.
 
 
 
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