Entertainment / Literature / Interlaced Rhyme: In long couplets, especially hexameter lines, sufficient room in the line allows a poet to use rhymes in the middle of the line as well as at the end of each line. Swinburne's 'Hymn to Proserpine' illustrates its use: Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean, the world has grown grey from Thy breath, We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death. Laurel is green for a season, and love is sweet for a day, But love grows bitter with treason, and laurel outlives not May.
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Rhyme Adjective Synonyms: rime, poem, poetry, verse, versification, metrical composition, song
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Entertainment / Literature / Rhyme: Also spelled rime, rhyme is a matching similarity of sounds in two or more words, especially when their accented vowels and all succeeding consonants are identical. For instance, the word-pairs listed MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Crossed Rhyme: In long couplets, especially hexameter lines, sufficient room in the line allows a poet to use rhymes in the middle of the line as well as at the end of each line. Swinburne's 'Hymn to Proserpine' ill MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Internal Rhyme: A poetic device in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end of the same metrical line. Internal rhyme appears in the first and third lines in this excerpt from Shelley's 'The MORE