internal rhyme


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internal rhyme

n.
Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse, as in "the grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother" (Dylan Thomas).
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internal rhyme

n
(Poetry) prosody rhyme that occurs between words within a verse line
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inter′nal rhyme′


n.
1. a rhyme between words in the same line of verse.
2. a rhyme between words within two or more lines of a verse.
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Noun1.internal rhyme - a rhyme between words in the same line
rhyme, rime - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
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