perfect rhyme

noun

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

2. full rhyme.

perfect rhyme

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

Example Sentences

“I can’t relate to desperation,” she sang — a lie, of course, but a perfect rhyme for “My give-a-f—s are on vacation.”

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Finally, in the run-up to the November 1932 Reichstag elections, Hitler urged his followers to rally, with the promise, “Es wird wild werden,” an almost too perfect rhyme with Trump’s call to his followers for Jan. 6, 2021, “Be there, will be wild!”

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“We were like, ‘Wait, not only did you solve something with an exact perfect rhyme, but it means we don’t have to electrocute babies and we can make it into a murder trial?’”

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But perfect rhyme is still a big plus — and don’t even think of “rhyming,” say, “Illinois” and “groin,” as does one of the Epics.

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A note on the rhyming: This rap contest differs from other Invite poetry and song contests in that the Empress won’t demand “perfect rhyme,” especially in a video; normally she’d just trash-toss “rappin’ ”/“Latin,” as in the Che-Guy example.

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