HALFRHYME

Half rhyme

Half-rhyme or slant-rhyme, sometimes called near-rhyme or imperfect rhyme, are words that come near rhyming, but do not really rhyme.

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half rhyme

Noun

  1. An imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.


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