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Definition of Head rhyme
1. Noun. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse. "Around the rock the ragged rascal ran"
Generic synonyms: Rhyme, Rime
Derivative terms: Alliterate
Definition of Head rhyme
1. Noun. The use of alliteration at the beginning of stressed syllables ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Head Rhyme
Literary usage of Head rhyme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lyricks [of] Camoens: Sonnets, Canzons, Odes and Sextines. Englished by by Luís de Camões (1884)
"... head-rhyme Percy and Guest quote the song of AD 1264 : Richard, thah thou be
euer trichard. But I prefer with Ritson, "the wretch," to make two lines. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"... in Shakepeare as it is in the continuous series of English poetry to our own
day. There is generally a double alternate head rhyme or alliteration by ..."
3. The English Language: Its Grammar, History and Literature : with Chapters on by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1887)
"... a poet who used the old English head-rhyme, as Chaucer used the foreign
end-rhyme, was born at Cleobury-Mortimer in Shropshire, in the year 1332. ..."
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