internal rhyme
Americannoun
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a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse.
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a rhyme created by words within two or more lines of a verse.
noun
Etymology
Origin of internal rhyme
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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On the other hand, he can do these patter songs that are just so virtuosic in terms of the internal rhyme and the ideas and the wordplay.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2023
Priscilla Block, “My Bar” Top-shelf internal rhyme from Nashville, where the cheap stuff just won’t do: “Out of the corner of my eye / I see the door guy checking your ID.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
But it’s Lil Wayne who’s truly Zen, afloat in a vortex of internal rhyme and syllabic cha-cha.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
English, in “Briggflatts,” is compacted into mouthfuls crunchy with alliteration and internal rhyme.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2016
They are Latin hexameters into which an internal rhyme has forced its way.
From On the Study of Words by Richard Chenevix Trench
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