full rhyme
noun Prosody.
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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What does "scattergood" mean?
a person who acts as though he or she knows everything and who dismisses the opinions, comments, or suggestions of others.
a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; spendthrift.
a well-intentioned but naive and often ineffectual social or political reformer.
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Example sentences from the Web for full rhyme
Its first beginnings are found in the Latin ecclesiastical hymns, and these soon developed into real or full-rhyme.
A History of English Versification|Jakob Schipper