perfect rhyme

American  

noun

1. rhyme of two words spelled or pronounced identically but differing in meaning, as rain, reign; rich rhyme.

2. full rhyme.

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perfect rhyme British  

noun

1. Also called: full rhyme. rhyme between words in which the stressed vowels and any succeeding consonants are identical although the consonants preceding the stressed vowels may be different, as between part/hart or believe/conceive

2. a rhyme between two words that are pronounced the same although differing in meaning, as in bough/bow

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perfect rhyme

Of course, to Adams “fire” and “desire” may be the perfect rhyme.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2015

I like making words fit together like puzzle pieces, and coming up with the perfect rhyme.

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist

“I will rhyme it as I run along, and when I hesitate and can not make good sense and a perfect rhyme, we’ll go to sleep.”

From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Jennie M. Drinkwater

Now a perfect rhyme is one in which the two rhyming syllables are both accented, the vowel sound and the consonants which follow the vowels are identical, and the sounds preceding the vowel are different.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

Beyond this it is necessary that the syllables, to form a full and perfect rhyme, should be accented syllables.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

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