Entertainment / Literature / Monorhyme: A poem or section of a poem in which all the lines have the same end rhyme. The rhyming pattern would thus look like this: AAAA AAAA, AAA AAA, or AA AA AA AA, etc. It is a common rhyme scheme in Latin, Italian, Arabic, Welsh, and Slav poetry, especially in the Slav poetry of the oral-formulaic tradition. Because of the fact that English nouns are not declined and our adjectives do not have gender consistently indicated by particular endings, it is much harder to make effective poetic use of monorhyme in the English poetry. However, Shakespeare makes frequent use of it is a bit of doggerel in his plays. For instance, in The Merchant of Venice, we find the following section in monorhyme: ARAGON: The fire seven times tried this, Seven times tried that judgment is That did never choose amiss Some there be that shadows kiss There be fools alive iwis, Silvered o'er, and so was this. Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone, you are sped. (2.9.62-71)
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