sight rhyme

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sight′ rhyme`

similarity in spelling of the ends of words or of lines of verse, as in have, grave. Also called eye rhyme.

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'Too' in stanza 3 likewise resonates with 'look' in the preceding strophe while 'mourn' offers a partial sight rhyme with 'hours'.

Keats's ode 'To Autumn', Ovid, and Homer

Let me give you a few examples of sight rhyme. (You don't have to take notes.

Sighted rhymes, sank same

Eye rhymes (or sight rhymes) are words that look like rhymes bur they don't sound like rhymes.