internal rhyme
noun
: rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within another line
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Joshua Bennett, an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College, praised Gorman’s ear for internal rhyme and alliteration.
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Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2021
Hardy even adds an internal rhyme, thrush/thus, to ornament the terminal ones.
—Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2021
Hardy even adds an internal rhyme, thrush/thus, to ornament the terminal ones.
—Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
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1850, in the meaning defined above
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internal rhyme
noun
: a rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within another line
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