internal rhyme

English

Noun

Examples
English example (perfect end rhyme of whole words in Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven): Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Norse example (half rhyme of stressed syllables only, not of whole words, in the Þórsdrápa): endr til Ymsa kindar

internal rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural internal rhymes)

1. The rhyming of words (in modern English poetry) or of stressed syllables (in old Germanic poetry) within the same line of a verse.

   Coordinate terms: half rhyme, perfect rhyme

   • 2006, H. Samy Alim, Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 145:

     We see a diverse and effective usage of internal rhyme in these ten lines. Pharoahe uses the typical internal rhyme, in which the rhymes are positioned in the middle and the end of the line (such as Lines 4, 8, and 9).

Further reading

• internal rhyme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia