feminine rhyme
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[edit]Noun
[edit]feminine rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural feminine rhymes)
- A disyllabic rhyme that occurs on an unaccented final syllable (a feminine ending).
- 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 557:
- She even composes a poem in honour of her school — seven stanzas so limp with feminine rhymes as to be almost boneless.