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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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
English, in “Briggflatts,” is compacted into mouthfuls crunchy with alliteration and internal rhyme.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2016
Sometimes he tends toward complex internal rhyme, but just as often he’s merely exulting.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2012
His poems are pitched throughout in the same fluent first person, and formally they're neat: enjambment and internal rhyme criss-cross the surfaces like ropes.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2010
As is natural to a novice, he rather exaggerates his liberties, especially in the cases where the internal rhyme seduces him.
From Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series by George Saintsbury
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