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Definition of Internal rhyme
1. Noun. A rhyme between words in the same line.
Definition of Internal rhyme
1. Noun. The rhyming of words (in modern English poetry) or of stressed syllables (in old Germanic poetry) within the same line of a verse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Internal Rhyme
Literary usage of Internal rhyme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1901)
"If one should attempt to describe the difference in words he might say that the
form with internal rhyme gives the effect of two partial, or not wholly ..."
2. A Study of English Rhyme by Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Lane Childs (1909)
"Perhaps the worst constructive fault chargeable against the ballads is an occasional
excessive use of internal rhyme, which so easily degenerates into ..."
3. The Art of Versification by Joseph Berg Esenwein, Mary Eleanor Roberts Roberts (1920)
"poets occasionally use internal-rhyme, generally using end- rhyme also. ...
A good example of internal-rhyme is Tennyson's "Sweet and Low," and a still ..."
4. The Boys' and Girls' Readers by Emma Miller Bolenius (1919)
"... like that described above, or internal rhyme, in which a word in the ...
is a lingering appeal in internal rhyme that is felt when a poem is read aloud. ..."
5. The Boys' and Girls' Readers: Teachers' Manual of Silent and Oral Reading by Emma Miller Bolenius (1919)
"Rhyme may be either end rhyme, like that described above, or internal rhyme, in
which a word in the middle of the line has the same sound as the word at the ..."
6. A Handbook of Modern English Metre by Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (1903)
"In The Cloud the internal rhyme is found in all the alternate lines, eg anap.
4 I .rift the snow on the mountains be/ow, anap. 3 And their great pines ^rown ..."
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