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full rhyme

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noun

Prosody.

  1. rhyme in which the stressed vowels and all following consonants and vowels are identical, but the consonants preceding the rhyming vowels are different, as in chain, brain; soul, pole.

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It is much better kept for full rhyme, in which vowels and consonants both "sound with" each other.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

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