internal rhyme
n.
Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse, as in “the grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother” (Dylan Thomas).
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Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse, as in “the grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother” (Dylan Thomas).
internal rhyme, a poetic device by which two or more words rhyme within the same line of verse, as in Kipling's reactionary poem ‘The City of Brass’ (1909):
Men swift to see done, and outrun, their extremest commanding—A special case of internal rhyme between words at the middle and the end of certain lines is leonine rhyme. See also crossed rhyme.
Of the tribe which describe with a jibe the perversions of Justice—
Panders avowed to the crowd whatsoever its lust is.
Also called middle rhyme, a rhyme occurring within the line. The rhyme may be with words within the line but not at the line end, or with a word at the line end and a word within the line.
In poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme which
occurs within a single line of verse.
Internal rhyme occurs in the middle of a line, as in these lines from Coleridge, "In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud" or "Whiles all the night through fog-smoke white" ("The Ancient Mariner"). http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/lit_term.html
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