perfect rhyme

English

Noun

Examples
English example 1: As the days go by I cannot help but sigh English example 2: Look up into the sky Boy it is mighty high Norse example: straum hrekkmímis ekkjur

perfect rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural perfect rhymes)

1. (uncountable) A form of rhyme in which the vowels and final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound.

   Synonyms: full rhyme, exact rhyme, true rhyme

   Antonyms: imperfect rhyme; half rhyme, quasi-rhyme, near rhyme, internal rhyme

   Hypernyms: rhyme; concord

2. (countable) An instance of this form of rhyme.

References

• Bartleby.com
• Exact Rhyme, Poetic Byway.com