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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