perfect rhyme

noun

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

perfect rhyme

Also calledfull rhyme rhyme between words in which the stressed vowels and any succeeding consonants are identical although the consonants preceding the stressed vowels may be different, as between part/hart or believe/conceive
a rhyme between two words that are pronounced the same although differing in meaning, as in bough/bow

I will rhyme it as I run along, and when I hesitate and can not make good sense and a perfect rhyme, well go to sleep.

Beyond this it is necessary that the syllables, to form a full and perfect rhyme, should be accented syllables.

And the Hebrew word forms a perfect rhyme with its German equivalent: "Seth—steht."

Why should we insist upon a perfect rhyme, as if it was a cog in a wheel?

April 19, 2024tortuous

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