internal rhyme

English

Noun

internal rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural internal rhymes)

  1. 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
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