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internal_rhyme
internal rhyme
English
Noun
internal rhyme (plural internal rhymes)
- The rhyming of words (in modern English poetry) or of stressed syllables (in old Germanic poetry) within the same line of a verse.
- English example (perfect end rhyme of whole words in Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven):
- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
- Norse example (half rhyme of stressed syllables only, not of whole words, in the Þórsdrápa):
- endr til Ymsa kindar
- English example (perfect end rhyme of whole words in Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven):