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end rhyme

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[end rahym] / ˈɛnd ˌraɪm /

noun

Prosody.
  1. rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry.


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With all that repetition at the beginning of lines, it’s easy to overlook what’s missing from the end: rhyme.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2021

In an art form in which end rhyme is the rule, finding a way to deliver your verse without your listeners’ missing the rhyme might be the greatest poetic flex of all.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2021

Queen only used do/you as an end rhyme once in its 15 albums, and there is no single rhyme that Queen used in more than five different songs.

From Slate Feb. 21, 2014

Traditional Arabic poetry, he explained, was usually written in one of 16 meters, in balanced lines split by a caesura, and frequently employing a single end rhyme for an entire poem.

From New York Times Oct. 17, 2010

Each line must contain a fixed number of syllables, whilst the different metres vary as to the employment of internal and end rhyme, assonance and alliteration.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

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