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Meaning of stave-rhyme | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
steɪv.ɹaɪm

Definitions

  1. A (stressed) word that rhymes with another, in that it begins with the same consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel.
  2. This kind of rhyme.

Equivalents

Examples

The poem is littered with stave-rhymes like "start, stop".”
“It is better to retain it in this line, as it is one of the 3 stave-rhymes.”
“c) MNT I 58 stave-rhymes (har/am; qat/qa) and near stave-rhymes (qu/qa) in the first five words, twofold genuine stave-rhyme (ö & ki) with grammatical assonant end-rhyme (söl/sal & sön/san) in the parallel phrases on revenge
The colophon penned in flowery style with stave-rhymes relates that the words of the Zaya Pandita's translation were written […]”
The poem exhibits stave-rhyme.”
Our ancestors grounded their verse on stave-rhyme and accent […]”
Now, of the Thornhill fragments, those I have numbered VII. give us part of an epitaph in stave-rhyme, conceived on the same plan as those at Dewsbury and Falstone, but with a remarkable variation; […]”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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