leonine rhyme
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leonine rhyme
n. A form of internal rhyme in which the word preceding the caesura rhymes with the final word in the line, as in: "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams" (Edgar Allan Poe).
[Probably after Leo or , Leonius, name of an unknown medieval poet.]
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End rhyme ( i.e., rhyme used at the end of a line to echo the end of another line) is most common, but internal, interior, or
leonine rhyme is frequently used as an occasional embellishment in a poem; a familiar example is William Shakespeare's "Hark; hark!
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