Entertainment / Literature / Inexact Rhyme: Rhymes created out of words with similar but not identical sounds. In most of these instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa. This type of rhyme is also called approximate rhyme, pararhyme, slant rhyme, near rhyme, half rhyme, off rhyme, analyzed rhyme, or suspended rhyme. The example below comes from William Butler Yeats: Heart-smitten with emotion I sink down, My heart recovering with covered eyes, Wherever I had looked I had looked upon, My permanent or impermanent images. Inexact rhyme has also been used for splendid intentional effect in poems such as Philip Larkins' 'Toads' and 'Toads Revisited,' and has been increasingly popular with postmodern British poets after World War II. Contrast with eye-rhyme, assonance, consonance, and exact rhyme.
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Inexact Adjective Synonyms: imprecise, inaccurate, erroneous, incorrect, wrong, false, faulty, indefinite, fallacious, fuzzy, muddled
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Rhyme Adjective Synonyms: rime, poem, poetry, verse, versification, metrical composition, song
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Entertainment / Literature / Near Rhyme: Another term for inexact rhyme or slant rhyme. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Identical Rhyme: The use of the same words as a 'rhymed' pair. For instance, putting the words stone/ stone or time/ time at the concluding positions in two lines. Many poets frown upon identical rhyme as unartful. Th MORE