Meaning of stave-rhyme | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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; […]”

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