masculine rhyme

noun

, Prosody.

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

masculine rhyme

noun

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

   collect, direct

   book, cook

Word History and Origins

Origin of masculine rhyme¹

First recorded in 1575–85

Example Sentences

The stanza is much the same, except that there is a much more general tendency to arrange the first couplet in single masculine rhyme and the second in feminine, while the second half of the fourth line is curiously prolonged to either ten or eleven syllables.

From Project Gutenberg

Lastly, even the very rhyme itself, the Italian cannot put in the last syllable, by the French named the masculine rhyme, but still in the next to the last, which the French call the female, or the next before that, which the Italians termed Sdrucciola.

From Project Gutenberg

Lastly, even the very rhyme itself the Italian cannot put in the last syllable, by the French named the masculine rhyme, but still in the next to the last, which the French call the female; or the next before that, which the Italian calls "sdrucciola:" the example of the former is, "buono," "suono;" of the sdrucciola is, "femina," "semina."

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg