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masculine rhyme

American  

noun

Prosody.

  1. a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.

masculine rhyme British  

noun

  1. prosody a rhyme between stressed monosyllables or between the final stressed syllables of polysyllabic words Compare feminine rhyme

    book, cook

    collect, direct
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Etymology

Origin of masculine rhyme

First recorded in 1575–85

Example Sentences

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The second half of each line ends in a masculine rhyme.

From The Nibelungenlied by Shumway, Daniel Bussier

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