end rhyme

American  

[end rahym] / ˈɛnd ˌraɪm /

noun

Prosody.

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

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Example Sentences

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

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

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