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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rhyme in which the final syllable is unstressed, as in feather/heather.
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- noun A
disyllabic rhyme that occurs on anunaccented finalsyllable
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hernesheir commented on the word feminine rhyme
A.k.a. double rhyme. A rhyme on two adjacent syllables, the first being stressed, the second unstressed (e.g. gherkin/merkin). Where more than one word is employed in a rhyme unit, the rhyme is sometimes referred to as a mosaic rhyme, as in the example below:
Terrorists bomb each other, quite persuaded
That all the martyrs would have done as they did.
Hat tip to Lord Byron's Don Juan
September 18, 2009