quasi-rhyme

English

Etymology

quasi- +‎ rhyme

Noun

quasi-rhyme (usually uncountable, plural quasi-rhymes)

1. (uncommon) Somewhat of a rhyme.

   Coordinate terms: half rhyme, near rhyme

   • 1904, W. K. Morton (publisher), Lincolnshire Notes and Queries - Volume 7, page 213:

     An oldish parishioner of my own gave me many years ago the quasi rhyme, or its rags and tatters.

   • 1967, Roman Jakobson (contributor), To Honor Roman Jakobson - Essays on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, 11 October 1966 · Issue 31, page 683:

     A similar pattern, mingling elements of alliteration, assonance, quasi-rhyme, and meaningful allusion ingeniously is seen in the following example.

   • 2006, Seth Lerer, The Yale Companion to Chaucer, page 202:

     Perhaps this quasi-rhyme royal stanza right at the end of a quasi-ballade is a nose-thumbing gesture at Chaucher's French contemporaries and the oppressive formal convention they represent;

   • 2016, Antonios Rengakos, Evina Sistakou, Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram, page 129:

     but they make significant use of rhyme, imperfect rhyme, pararhyme, quasi-rhyme between identical words, rhyme between the end of a line and the inside of a line, rhyme between stressed and unstressed syllables.

   • 2024, Paul R. Nail, Ph.D., A Psychological Biography of Hiram "Hank" Williams - Much More to His Story, Volume II, page 481:

     Hall referred to these as false rhymes, but I prefer the label quasi-rhymes.

Alternative forms

• quasirhyme