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linked rhyme

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noun

Prosody.

  1. a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.

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Both had genuine talent, and both had a strong desire to do the work of the poet, that is, to find beauty and to bind beauty with a chain of linked rhyme.

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