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Definition of Initial 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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Initial Rhyme
Literary usage of Initial rhyme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Poetry: Its Principles and Progress, with Representative by Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young (1904)
"In initial rhyme, or alliteration, the opening of the corresponding syllables is
... But from the tenth century on, the rules of initial rhyme were somewhat ..."
2. The Principles and Progress of English Poetry by Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young (1904)
"In initial rhyme, or alliteration, the opening of the corresponding syllables is
... But from the tenth century on, the rules of initial rhyme were somewhat ..."
3. The Prose of Edward Rowland Sill: With an Introduction Comprising Some by Edward Rowland Sill (1900)
"But long and song are rhymes, since now a different consonant precedes each.
The initial rhyme involves the same principle, only reversed; the unity being ..."
4. A Study of English Rhyme by Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Lane Childs (1909)
"Beginning-rhyme = alliteration; initial-rhyme. I Middle-rhyme = assonance: identity
or similarity of included vowel-sounds. Spanish assonance also requires ..."
5. Esthetics by Kate Gordon (1909)
"Alliteration is the repetition of like sounds at the beginning of words which
stand next or near one another. It is sometimes called initial rhyme. ..."
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