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

And the Hebrew word forms a perfect rhyme with its German equivalent: "Seth—steht."

From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by Lenker, John Nicholas

Can for am spoils the sense; it was introduced unnecessarily to make a perfect rhyme, but such rhymes as am and man were common in Shakspeare's time.

From Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

With ivy garlands on his fadeless brow, Catullus hails his peer in perfect rhyme; Comes Calvus, too; and slandered Gallus! thou,— Not guilty, save if wasted love be crime!

From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.