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Definition of Monorhyme
1. n. A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme.
Definition of Monorhyme
1. Noun. A poem whose lines all end with the same rhyme. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monorhyme
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monorhyme
Literary usage of Monorhyme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Turkey by Stanley Lane-Poole, Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, Arthur Gilman (1899)
"... are written in rhyming couplets ; but the most marked feature in the rhyme-system
of these Eastern literatures is what is known as the monorhyme ..."
2. The Story of Turkey by Stanley Lane-Poole (1888)
"... but the most marked feature in the rhyme-system of these Eastern literatures
is what is known as the monorhyme. A single rhyme-sound, that of the first ..."
3. The Story of Turkey by Stanley Lane-Poole, Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, Arthur Gilman (1888)
"... is what is known as the monorhyme. A single rhyme-sound, that of the first
couplet, is carried throughout the entire poem ; this rhyme is repeated in ..."
4. French Literature by Gustave Masson (1888)
"... monorhyme ... the life of Sainte Foi, of Agen, twenty octosyllabic lines,
forming two unequal monorhyme ..."
5. Poetic Origins and the Ballad by Louise Pound (1921)
"... escaped general recognition as a ballad because composed in monorhyme quatrains,
a more elaborate form, instead of in the couplets of the Judas. ..."
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