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perfect rhyme

–noun
1. rhyme of two words spelled or pronounced identically but differing in meaning, as rain, reign; rich rhyme.
2. full rhyme.

full rhyme

–noun Prosody.
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.

rime riche

[reem reesh]
–noun, plural rimes riches [reem reesh] . Prosody.
rhyme created by the use of two different words, or groups of words, of which both the stressed syllables and any following syllables are identical, as in lighted, delighted.


Origin:
1900–05; < F: lit., rich rhyme
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perfect rhyme  
n.  
  1. Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different, for example, great, late; rider, beside her; dutiful, unbeautiful. Also called full rhyme, true rhyme.

  2. Rime riche.

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