full rhyme

noun

, Prosody.

1. rhyme in which the stressed vowels and all following consonants and vowels are identical, but the consonants preceding the rhyming vowels are different, as in chain, brain; soul, pole.

Example Sentences

For example, "Dawn Chorus" closes with this image of pre-dawn songbirds: How they sing: as if each had pecked up a smouldering coalTheir throats singed and swollen with songIn dissonance as befits the dark worldWhere only travellers and the sleepless belong Quatrains, full rhyme, and pastoral subject matter are quintessentially English, but the tonal palette is quite different and the image is complicated by that smouldering coal, which comes from Pushkin's "A Prophet".

From The Guardian

The stanzas are all sextains, with lines two, four and six sharing a full rhyme, and one, three and five unrhymed.

From The Guardian

They were bored by the childish tricks of c�sura and rhyme which sometimes attempted a see-saw effect by producing now a poor and now a full rhyme, or again made a pretence of hiding away and keeping out of sight in order to induce the hearer to hunt it out.

From Project Gutenberg

The chief feature of his Englynion is the use of a 644 kind of assonance in which in some cases the final vowels agreed alternately in each quatrain, and in others each line ended in a different vowel, in both cases with alliteration and consonance of final consonants or full rhyme.

From Project Gutenberg

In chansons of late date the full rhyme often replaces assonance; but inducing, as it did in unskilled hands, artificial and feeble expansions of the sense, rhyme was a cause which co-operated with other causes in the decline of this form of narrative poetry.

From Project Gutenberg