feminine rhyme

English

Noun

feminine rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural feminine rhymes)

1. A disyllabic rhyme that occurs on an unaccented final syllable (a feminine ending).
   • 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 557:

     She even composes a poem in honour of her school — seven stanzas so limp with feminine rhymes as to be almost boneless.