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full rhyme

noun

, Prosody.
  1. rhyme in which the stressed vowels and all following consonants and vowels are identical, but the consonants preceding the rhyming vowels are different, as in chain, brain; soul, pole.

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It is much better kept for full rhyme, in which vowels and consonants both "sound with" each other.

Its first beginnings are found in the Latin ecclesiastical hymns, and these soon developed into real or full-rhyme.

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