monorhyme

American  

[mon-uh-rahym] / ˈmɒn əˌraɪm /

noun

Prosody.

1. a poem or stanza in which all the lines rhyme with each other.

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Etymology

Origin of monorhyme

First recorded in 1725–35; mono- + rhyme

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Example Sentences

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monorhyme

The Shi'r or metrical part of The Nights is considerable amounting to not less than ten thousand lines, and these I could not but render in rhyme or rather in monorhyme.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

I have not thought it necessary to preserve the monorhyme.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

I allude especially to the monorhyme, Rim continuat or tirade monorime, whose monotonous simplicity was preferred by the Troubadours for threnodies.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Not a word of praise for mastering the prodigious difficulties of the monorhyme!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

To surmount the difficulties of the monorhyme demands great technical skill even in a language of which the peculiar formation renders the supply of rhymes extraordinarily abundant.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson

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