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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Example Sentences

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

Much depends upon the ideas that poetry contains; for mere nonsense, though in perfect rhyme and rhythm, is not poetry.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

Bless me! of life it is just the prime, A fact that I hope she will understand; And forty year is a perfect rhyme To dark brown eyes and a pretty hand.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

English literature is full of illustrations of the old pronunciation of ea, as in "Hudibras;"               "Doubtless the pleasure is as great                In being cheated as to cheat," which was then a perfect rhyme.

From Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 01: Preface and Life by Bright, Mynors